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Monumen
Nh. Dini
Written by Edwin Setiadi, originally published in Personal Blog
Jan 09, 2025
Monumen
Nh. Dini
Written by Edwin Setiadi, originally published in Personal Blog
Jan 09, 2025
This is an Indonesian-language book, but I’m writing the review in English because its quality deserves the broader attention as a hidden gem of Indonesian literature.
It is a book of 10 short stories, that aims to portray the many different point of views in a diverse society: 1. A crippled boy from a village who goes to the big city to do scrap jobs at the bottom of society 2. A village administrator being set up for an arranged marriage 3. A rags-to-riches success story of an incredible man who becomes too cocky and succumbed into worldly sins and ended up isolating himself in an island 4. An honest government official in his retirement days, being tested by his rule-breaking neighbour 5. A mother whose son got involved in a religious extremist group 6. An Asian immigrant’s life in Paris 7. The local affairs within a housing complex, from a house maid’s point of view 8. An infrastructure project in a village that failed because there’s no education for the locals 9. The struggles of a spoiled child of a wealthy millionaire family 10. A story of a highly educated woman being domestically abused.
It is a book of 10 short stories, that aims to portray the many different point of views in a diverse society: 1. A crippled boy from a village who goes to the big city to do scrap jobs at the bottom of society 2. A village administrator being set up for an arranged marriage 3. A rags-to-riches success story of an incredible man who becomes too cocky and succumbed into worldly sins and ended up isolating himself in an island 4. An honest government official in his retirement days, being tested by his rule-breaking neighbour 5. A mother whose son got involved in a religious extremist group 6. An Asian immigrant’s life in Paris 7. The local affairs within a housing complex, from a house maid’s point of view 8. An infrastructure project in a village that failed because there’s no education for the locals 9. The struggles of a spoiled child of a wealthy millionaire family 10. A story of a highly educated woman being domestically abused.
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