Seekor Anjing Mati di Bala Murghab

Stories, several of them first printed in national newspapers and journals, that move between anthropological report and fiction, mostly told by an intimate first-person narrator. In one, a small dog that has been trotting about and sniffing the sand is shot in the street by a soldier with an automatic rifle; the narrator almost drops the camera, while the soldier stands nearby as if nothing had happened. From such moments the collection follows injustice in places of armed conflict and in quieter private spaces: political, religious and gender conflicts, the double standards applied to women, and wounds that do not always show.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

131 pages in the original

Genres

Politics, War (assigned by AI)

First published

2012 by Gramedia Pustaka Utama

ISBN

9789792284959 (original)