Painter of Lost Souls
Author: Michael Vatikiotis
Publisher: Godown, The Lontar Foundation (2012)

Sito is a restless young artist from a rice-farming village in Central Java, a destitute place plagued by poverty and a history of blood curdling violence. Michael Vatikiotis's second novel, The Painter of Lost Souls, follows the fledgling artist as he stumbles through Yogyakarta's viciously competitive, pseudo-bohemian art scene and, finally, as he journe