Description
Set against the upheavals of Indonesia’s 1965 political violence, this sweeping historical novel follows a young woman whose life is transformed by love, ideology, and the forces of history. As she searches for meaning amid imprisonment, exile, and a nation struggling to confront its past, the story moves between intimate personal experience and the wider tragedy of a society fractured by fear. Drawing on the characters and moral tensions of the Mahabharata, the novel explores memory, political violence, loyalty, loss, and the enduring possibility of reconciliation. Lyrical and deeply researched, it is both a poignant love story and a powerful reckoning with Indonesia’s buried history.
Available Editions
paperback
Amazon Crossing
Published Jul 12, 2016
476 pages
ISBN: 9781503936430
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Details
First Published
2012
Language
eng
Translation
From: ind
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Question of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak.