Genduk

Told in the manner of a memoir, the story follows an eleven-year-old girl in the highest village on Mount Sindoro in Temanggung in the 1970s, when tobacco farmers there are starting to process leaf of the world's top grade for the cigarette factories. Genduk searches for who she is and for the father she has never once seen. When she learns the truth about the father she has longed for, her conflict widens into the troubles the tobacco farmers face, and she sets out to settle what she can, for herself and for the land where she grew up.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

219 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Indonesia, 1970s

First published

2016 by Gramedia Pustaka Utama

ISBN

9786020332192 (original)