Dawuk

Warto Kemplung tells his story to anyone willing to listen at the coffee stall: a grey, bloody tale from not so long ago, he says, only two village-head elections back. It is the love story of Mat Dawuk and Inayatun, a couple the village looks down on, set in a Javanese village changed by cash crops and by work as migrant labourers abroad, and told with humour, fights and the songs of Indian films. But how much of Warto's story really happened, and how much is a yarn spun to cover up his own past?

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

181 pages in the original

Genres

Love, Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

Indonesia

First published

2017 by Marjin Kiri

ISBN

9789791260695 (original)