Kuda Terbang Maria Pinto

Twelve stories of people caught in the dark side of power, from armed conflict to the pressures on exiles' families and the disappearance of activists. In the title story, told partly through an Indonesian soldier's fear, a civilian who studied three semesters at university becomes Maria Pinto, leader of a dangerous army of mist in a rebel war that recalls East Timor. Elsewhere a child meets a father kept away from the family for thirty years after the upheaval of 1965, a fourteen-year-old becomes a guerrilla, a transgender woman longs for true love from a man, and in the city of Aqtar survivors of massacres drink Qirzar, a bitter flower honey that makes them forget.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

134 pages in the original

Genres

Politics, War (assigned by AI)

First published

2004 by Kata Kita

ISBN

9789799830203 (original)