Akhir Sang Gajah di Bukit Kupu-kupu

These stories give their attention to people pushed aside, above all women, and not every story is centred on a human being. One character has to put down an elephant they love; the leader of an end-of-the-world sect, believed to have magical powers, is never tried for sexual violence; a woman stays devoted to someone who sells her, hurts her and takes what she makes; another watches a loved one beaten again and again by a partner she will not leave; and a mother tears the wings off butterflies. Some characters live with obsessive-compulsive disorder, narcissism or neurosis, and domestic life is pictured as a tiger forced to become a cat. A conflict in North Maluku turns out to be a fight over land rather than religion, and one figure springs from an epitaph on a colonial grave.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

156 pages in the original

Set in

Indonesia

First published

2024 by Mizan

ISBN

9786024413408 (original)