Tiba Sebelum Berangkat

Mapata, once a bissu, a priest of the old Bugis faith in South Sulawesi, has spent three days locked in a cramped, stinking room. His captor, Ali Baba, and his men fire questions at him that he cannot always answer, and torture him until he loses his tongue. In a brown notebook Ali Baba gives him, Mapata writes about his life: the years with Batari, with whom he ran a salon offering bridal make-up, love charms and marriage advice, and the history passed on to him by Puang Matua Rusmi, of how the Darul Islam rebels hunted and killed the bissu from the 1950s in the name of purifying religion.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

215 pages in the original

First published

2018 by Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia

ISBN

9786024243517 (original)