Sepotong Bibir Paling Indah di Dunia

Stories that move between love and infidelity, sensuality and grief, and memories of political cruelty and of faith. Sandra hides from her young daughter Bita that she is only a man's kept woman, just as she herself once learned, as a child, that her mother sold herself. A man comes home to find his wife and four children murdered and asks whether this is the world God meant to make. A child left by its mother on a rubbish dump is found by a scavenger and sold to a man who runs beggars. Two parents argue over whether their daughter may have the sweets sold at street crossings, and a father makes excuses when his little girl asks why her mother's postcard has not come.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

166 pages in the original

First published

2010 by Bentang

ISBN

9789791227889 (original)