“The author is a young Indonesian writer, his works have been awarded a number of national literary awards. The story “When Darkness Gathers” tells about the inhabitants of an old aristocratic house, whose destinies reflected the process of breaking down now illusory class barriers. The hero of the novel “Telegram” is a young Jakarta journalist, a native of the province. The author raises a pressing problem for Indonesia and many other developing countries “getting used to” of a person in the socio-psychological structure of a society based on bourgeois individualism.”