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Pulang
Written by Pamela Allen, originally published in Inside Indonesia
Jan 04, 2014
Pulang
Written by Pamela Allen, originally published in Inside Indonesia
Jan 04, 2014
Leila S. Chudori’s novel Pulang is an important addition to a growing literature examining the events of 1965-66 and its aftermath. In a recent Tempo article, Goenawan Mohamad described 1965 as ‘a kind of code … for a catastrophic occurrence – and because of this, always simplified.’ He went on to observe that 2012 seemed to be a year of remembering, or imagining, 1965.
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