Description
Home combines political repression and exile with a spicy mixture of love, family, and food, alternating between Paris and Jakarta in the period between Suharto's 1965 rise to power and his downfall in 1998, further illuminating Indonesia's tragic twentieth-century history popularized by the Oscar-nominated documentary The Act of Killing.
Leila S. Chudori is an Indonesian journalist. Home is her debut novel.
Endorsements
"A wonderful exercise in humanism... [by] a prodigious and impressive storyteller." — Jakarta Globe
"Families and friends entangled in the cruel snare of history." — Time magazine
Won Indonesia's most important literary prize in 2013.