What is particularly significant about the second volume in the trilogy, given the English title The Turning Wheel, is that it recounts the hardship faced after 1965, by the families of those murdered and detained. It reveals the strength demanded of their wives who suddenly needed to find a livelihood when their husband, usually the breadwinner, was detained. A detainee’s whole immediate and extended family was tainted as being ‘communist-related’ and this meant that most people avoided them for fear of being similarly affected. The children of detainees faced taunts and bullying at school as being children of ‘communists’.
Author Putu Oka Sukanta
Translator Keith Foulcher
Format Paperback, English
Page(s) 268
ISBN/ISBN13 /9786237150169
Published Date Mar 29, 2022
Publisher Lontar Foundation
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Translator Keith Foulcher
Format Paperback, English
Page(s) 268
ISBN/ISBN13 /9786237150169
Published Date Mar 29, 2022
Publisher Lontar Foundation
View on Goodreads | Google Books
Click here for more info!
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Its publisher Lontar has now released a translation of the first and second books in the trilogy. All three novels have been translated by Keith Foulcher who has sensitively and sympathetically made them as readable in English as they are in Indonesian.
— Ron Witton in A life told in three parts (Inside Indonesia, Jul 11, 2022)
— Ron Witton in A life told in three parts (Inside Indonesia, Jul 11, 2022)
