I wanted to climb to the summit of challenges, attack my way through hardships as solid as granite, tempt all sorts of peril, and break through mysteries with science. I longed to inhale all sorts of experience and then explore the labyrinthine ins and outs of life that in the end cannot be guessed. I yearned for possibilities that react with each other, like the collision of uranium molecules: binding, multiplying, bursting, and dispersing in unexpected directions. I wanted to go to faraway places and meet with endless varieties of foreign languages and peoples. I wished to rove, finding my direction through reading the stars of constellations. I wanted to cross fields and deserts, to be burned by the sun until I blistered, to be shook by the assaulting wind, and shrink from being gripped by cold. I wanted a life that was thrilling, filled with conquest. / wanted to live! To feel the essence of being!
Andrea Hirata Seman adalah si Ikal yang diceritakan dalam buku tetralogi buku Laskar Pelangi. Ia berpendidikan S1 dari Universitas Indonesia dan S2 dari Sheffield Hallam University (SHU), Inggris. Ia sempat melakukan riset di Universit de Paris, Sorbonne, Prancis dan risetnya itu, yang juga dikisahkan dalam buku ini, mendapat penghargaan khusus dari SHU. Hasil riset tersebut telah ditulis Andrea dalam buku berbahasa Inggris dan telah diterjemahkan ke dalam bahasa Indonesia. Andrea lahir di Belitong dan sampai saat ini masih bekerja di kantor pusat PT Telkom di Bandung.
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