Surga Sungsang

In Ujung Tanjung, a fishing village on a cape that is slowly going under, people still follow the late Syeh Muso. He could not walk on water, they whisper, but he parted the sea with his staff and walked on its floor, though his own brother, Syeh Bintoro, thought him a heretic. His grave, reached by boat through mangroves and flocks of herons, never lacks pilgrims and is said to glow green. Abu Jenar wants it destroyed; the village elder Kiai Siti and Kufah oppose him, believing he has been sent by people from the city to make way for a resort. As the crisis comes to a head, each character faces violence and the fight for what is right in their own way.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

144 pages in the original

First published

2014 by Gramedia Pustaka Utama

ISBN

9786020303291 (original)