Haniyah dan Ala di Rumah Teteruga

Haniyah loves clove trees because they share their life with the plants around them, and she lives with Ala in the house called Teteruga, in the clove village of Kon. Only Ala can see the ghost of Ido, who tells of Madika, a man who lived under Dutch rule before 1950, and warns that some people grow cruel without guilt and are more frightening than ghosts or wild beasts. The novel opens in 1950 with the suicide of Markeba Tikore and the axe murder of her husband Tago, which villagers blame on their young son Naf, then leaps to 1990, braiding three stories through village customs, the troubles of plain villagers and a locally coloured Indonesian.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

143 pages in the original

Genres

Nature, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Indonesia

First published

2021 by Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia

ISBN

9786024815271 (original)