Rab(b)i

Stories about the telembuk, as Indramayu calls its sex workers, and the people around them. In the title story Untung lives in Cipari, Cilacap, while Wasti, the young widow he married, works in Taiwan; she sends him money each month and even allows him to hire telembuk while she is gone. Another story reaches back to the Darul Islam rebellion, when villages lived in fear between rebels and soldiers, and to how Mak Dayem, later a madam, came to the trade.

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Short stories

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2020 by Buku Mojok