We need to write something a lot of people will want to read.Ī poetic romance with a bit of science thrown in. Not a dry academic article explaining their philosophy, but rather fiction: Now it's ten years later and the two soulmates - a homosexual couple, devoted to each other but still preferring to live separately - get down to writing their masterpiece. That in ten years time, I will create something that will bridge the gap between the various branches of learning.

Materialism and non-materialism and science and religion. I know how to reconcile materialism and idealism ! The novel begins with Dhimas and Ruben, two Indonesian men who had met while studying in America.Įngaging in typical grandiose student-talk, Ruben babbled back then already: Supernova includes many things - history, myth, science, your supermarket receipts - to show you the nodes in the silver thread of the network of life. It stands alone well enough, however - a reasonably self-contained story (or group of stories), even as it suggests a greater whole.īut then that's (part of) the idea: the entire novel is built on the premise that everything is part of a greater, interconnected and hard-to-fathom whole.Ī Prologue opens with the warning: 'What you are about to read will not always be easy to understand', and the novel comes with a bibliography, but Lestari is disarming from the first in making her high-concept fiction accessible: Supernova: The Knight, the Princess and the Falling Star is the first in the (otherwise still untranslated) 'Supernova'-series indeed, the novel's closing words and promise are: 'THE BEGINNING'. Made into a film in 2014, directed by Rizal Mantovani.The Knight, the Princess and the Falling Star.General information | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.

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