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Faisal Oddang

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    Khatulistiwa 2018 · Shortlist

    Tiba Sebelum Berangkat

    Title translated by AI:“Arriving Before Departing”

    Faisal Oddang

    Novel · 215 pages

    AI-generated summary:Mapata, once a bissu, a priest of the old Bugis faith in South Sulawesi, is kidnapped and tortured, and in a notebook his captor hands him he writes down his past and the persecution of the bissu.