Duri dan Kutuk

The old house next to Adam's, long abandoned, has a new occupant. Eva, a woman with a gift for growing every kind of plant, turns the eerie place into a shop called Toko Firdauz with an overgrown garden. Adam, a teenager in the grip of awakening desire, watches Eva and her plants from his bedroom window, and at night imagines rose tendrils creeping into his room and a woman overgrown with thorns and roots. Eva, for her part, is followed by curses over what grows on her body. Adam keeps the secret of what he has seen, along with his wild fantasies. The novel traces the life of a woman forever troubled by thorns and hemmed in by curses.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Coming of age, Speculative (assigned by AI)

First published

2024 by Gramedia Pustaka Utama