Katri

Three days after her husband vanishes, Katri is shot. She is eighteen and seven months pregnant with her first child, and the bullet is fired at close range to make sure she dies. The soldiers had arrived at her parents' house at eleven in the morning, while she was in the kitchen making noodles; her love of the arts had made her a target. She survives, and misfortune follows misfortune: she is taken from one camp to another, from one prison to another, and life leaves her no choice but to endure. Based on a true story, the novel follows a village woman from Klaten wrongly arrested and held as a political prisoner after 1965.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Indonesia, from 1965

First published

2025 by Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia