“Hai, Satya! Hai, Cakra!” Sang Bapak melambaikan tangan. “Ini Bapak. Iya, benar kok, ini Bapak. Bapak cuma pindah ke tempat lain. Gak sakit. Alhamdulillah, berkat doa Satya dan Cakra. … Mungkin Bapak tidak dapat duduk dan bermain di samping kalian. Tapi, Bapak tetap ingin kalian tumbuh dengan Bapak di samping kalian. Ingin tetap dapat bercerita kepada kalian. Ingin tetap dapat mengajarkan kalian. Bapak sudah siapkan. Ketika punya pertanyaan, kalian tidak pernah perlu bingung ke mana harus mencari jawaban. I don’t let death take these, away from us. I don’t give death, a chance. Bapak ada di sini. Di samping kalian. Bapak sayang kalian.” Ini adalah sebuah cerita. Tentang seorang pemuda yang belajar mencari cinta. Tentang seorang pria yang belajar menjadi bapak dan suami yang baik. Tentang seorang ibu yang membesarkan mereka dengan penuh kasih. Dan…, tentang seorang bapak yang meninggalkan pesan dan berjanji selalu ada bersama mereka.
Author
Adhitya Mulya (Adit) aspires to be a story-teller. At early age, Adit learned and enjoyed story telling thru visual mediums like movies and drawings. This, inspired little Adit to take up drawing as a child, and later photography in his teen years. As a young adult, Adit tries to expand his storytelling medium thru novels. Jomblo (2003) is his first novel (romantic comedies) and was national best-seller - and later made into a movie by the same title (2006). He went on to write another rom-com novel Gege Mengejar Cinta (2004). Adit uses novels as a medium to try new genres. Travelers Tale (2007) was the amongst the first Indonesian fiction novels with traveling theme before becoming mainstream in Indonesia. Mencoba Sukses (2012) was his effort to try on horror-comedy which later found, not working very well. He released Sabtu Bersama Bapak (2014), a family themed novel which again became national best seller, well received, and also made its' way into motion picture (2016). His latest novel, Bajak Laut & Purnama Terakhir (2016) - is his effort in learning how to make a thriller-history novel. Adit's passion towards storytelling branches out from drawing, photography to novel and move scripts, which amongst other are, Jomblo (2006) Testpack (2012) Sabtu Bersama Bapak (2016) Shy-Shy cat (2016).
