Crazy Little Heaven: An Indonesian Journey

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ISBN: 978-1-921924-507 Format: 230mm x 153mm 272pp plus 8pp photo insert Rights: World Release / Publication Date: 01 /09 /2013
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Foreword by Tim Bowden AM – author, TV and radio journalist, who has described Crazy Little Heaven as ‘The best book on Indonesia I have read.’

When Mark Heyward first went to Indonesia, to teach at a small school in East Kalimantan, little did he realise how life changing his decision would prove to be. Within three years his Australian life would be behind him and he would be travelling, with fellow adventurers, across remote Indonesian Borneo. The story of that remarkable expedition – a true travel adventure – coalesces with the author’s longer journey into the complex heart of Indonesia. It is a journey that spans two decades, that takes the reader from a treasured childhood in Tasmania to a new life in the world’s most populous Muslim nation. Along the way the author travels from one end of the archipelago to the other, from the jungles of Kalimantan to the riots and political turmoil of Jakarta. When he meets and falls in love with Sopan, he must make another life changing decision.

Evocative and beautiful, yet often questioning, and always revealing, Crazy Little Heaven is both a love story and an unforgettable journey into Indonesian culture and geography – a hymn to this ‘sweet disappearing world’.