Leila S. Chudori

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• Laut Bercerita

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  Khatulistiwa 2018 · Shortlist

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  Laut Bercerita

  Leila S. Chudori

  Novel · 308 pages · Politics, Family

  AIAI-generated summary:In March 1998 the student activist Biru Laut is seized by unknown men and held and tortured with his friends; years later his sister Asmara searches for the activists who never came back.

• Pulang

  In English

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  Pulang

  Leila S. Chudori

  Novel · 495 pages · Politics, Family, Migration

  AIAI-generated summary:Dimas Suryo, an Indonesian exile barred from returning home after 1965, runs a restaurant in Paris with fellow exiles, while his daughter Lintang travels to Jakarta in 1998.

• 9 dari Nadira

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  Khatulistiwa 2010 · Shortlist

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  9 dari Nadira

  Leila S. Chudori

  Short stories · 281 pages · Family

  AIAI-generated summary:Linked stories follow Nadira, a journalist and the youngest child of the Suwandi family, after her free-spirited mother Kemala takes her own life.