Kitab Omong Kosong

Narrated by Togog, the misfit clown of the wayang stage who feels slighted in a world that worships Semar, this retelling of the Ramayana looks at Rama's conquests from below. While Rama's army sweeps across the subcontinent and leaves ruin behind it, two of its victims, Satya and Maneka, wander in search of Walmiki, the poet who wrote the epic, sailing an ocean of stories. The book also tells of the death of Hanoman, the great monkey destined to live long as a guardian of culture. Togog himself keeps warning the reader that the tale is nothing but nonsense and not worth reading.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

623 pages in the original

Genres

War (assigned by AI)

First published

2004 by Bentang

ISBN

9789793062198 (original)