Laksmi Pamuntjak

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• Aruna dan Lidahnya

  In English

  SaveThe Birdwoman's Palate to read later

  Khatulistiwa 2015 · Shortlist

  The Birdwoman's Palate

  Aruna dan Lidahnya

  Laksmi Pamuntjak

  Novel · 341 pages

  AIAI-generated summary:Aruna, an epidemiologist who lives for food, is sent around Indonesia to investigate scattered bird flu cases and turns the assignment into a journey through regional cooking with three friends.

• Amba

  In English

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  Khatulistiwa 2013 · Shortlist

  The Question of Red

  Amba

  Laksmi Pamuntjak

  Novel · 556 pages · Love, Historical, Politics

  AIAI-generated summary:In 2006 Amba travels to Buru Island to find out what became of Bhisma, the doctor she loved, who vanished in the crackdown of 1965 and was sent to the island as a political prisoner.