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"A wonderful exercise in humanism . . . [by] a prodigious and impressive storyteller".—Jakarta Globe An epic saga of "families and friends entangled in the cruel snare of history" (Time magazine), Home combines political repression and exile with a spicy mixture of love, family, and food, alternating between Paris and Jakarta in the time between Suharto's 1965 rise to power and downfall in 1998, further illuminating Indonesia's tragic twentieth-century history popularized by the Oscar-nominated documentary The Act of Killing. Leila S. Chudori is Indonesia's most prominent female journalist. Home is her debut novel and won Indonesia's most important literary prize in 2013.
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(1 month ago) |
09 Oct, 2024
I read this as apart of the Storygraph read around the world challenge for the Indonesian read. Unfortunately, much more of the book took place in Paris. An interesting historical fiction which looks at the massacre in Indonesia in the 60s and the effects on the survivors and their families.
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