"An ambitious saga that intertwines narration from various generations and creates a wide-ranging picture of Indonesia." — Publishers Weekly
**Nominated for the FT/Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices Award 2016**
"An epic saga of families and friends entangled in the cruel snare of history" (Time Magazine) Home examines the tragedy of political exiles during Suharto's regime (1965-1998) forced out of Indonesia after the 1965 massacre of presumed leftists and sympathizers, alternating between Paris and Jakarta, delving into the lives of the exiles, their families and friends. A story of longing, lust, and betrayal, but also love, laughter, adventure, and mouthwatering descriptions of Indonesian food, Home further illuminates Indonesia's tragic twentieth-century history made known in the West by the Oscar-nominated documentary The Act of Killing.
Leila S. Chudori is Indonesia's most prominent female journalist. Home is her debut novel and won Indonesia's most important literary prize in 2013.

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Literature & Fiction

Chudori, Leila S.

Literary

Deep Vellum Publishing

Laut Bercerita, novel terbaru Leila S. Chudori, bertutur tentang kisah keluarga yang kehilangan, sekumpulan sahabat yang merasakan kekosongan di dada, sekelompok orang yang gemar menyiksa dan lancar berkhianat, sejumlah keluarga yang mencari kejelasan makam anaknya, dan tentang cinta yang tak akan luntur.

Laut Bercerita (Indonesian Edition)

Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia

Home is a remarkable fictional account of the September 30th Movement’s impact on people’s lives. This “movement” led to the murder of a million or more presumed “Communists” and the imprisonment of another tens of thousands of people. At the time, thousands of Indonesians who were abroad had their passports revoked and were exiled. History was manipulated by the Suharto government to cast a favorable light on their involvement in this tragedy. A whole generation of Indonesians were raised in a world of forced silence, where facts were suppressed and left unspoken. Although the tumultuous events of 1965 envelop Home’s background, this is not a novel about ideology. Going back and forth between Jakarta and Paris in 1965 and 1998, Home is about the lives of Indonesians in exile, their families and their friends, including those left behind in Indonesia. It is not only a story of love, lust and betrayal, but also of laughter, adventure and food.

Home: Novel

The Lontar Foundation

Sinopsis: Pulang adalah drama keluarga, persahabatan, cinta dan pengkhianatan berlatar belakang tiga peristiwa bersejarah: Indonesia 30 September 1965, Prancis Mei 1968, dan Indonesia Mei 1998. Paris, Mei 1968. Ketika revolusi mahasiswa berkecamuk di Paris, Dimas Suryo seorang eksil politik Indonesia bertemu Vivienne Deveraux, seorang mahasiswa Prancis yang ikut demonstrasi melawan pemerintah Prancis. Pada saat yang sama, Dimas menerima kabar dari Jakarta: Hananto Prawiro, sahabatnya, ditangkap tentara dan dinyatakan tewas. Dimas merasa cemas dan gamang. Bersama puluhan wartawan dan seniman lain, dia tak bisa kembali ke Jakarta karena paspornya dicabut oleh pemerintah Indonesia. Sejak itu mereka mengelana tanpa status yang jelas dari Santiago ke Havana, ke Peking dan akhirnya mendarat di tanah Eropa untuk mendapatkan suaka dan menetap di sana. Di tengah kesibukan mengelola Restoran Tanah Air di Paris bersama tiga kawannya: Nug, Tjai, dan Risjaf`mereka berempat disebut Empat Pilar Tanah Air`Dimas, terus-menerus dikejar rasa bersalah karena kawan-kawannya di Indonesia satu persatu tumbang, dikejar, ditembak, atau menghilang begitu saja dalam perburuan Peristiwa 30 September. Apalagi dia tak bisa melupakan Surti Anandari`isteri Hananto`yang bersama ketiga anaknya berbulan-bulan diinterogasi tentara. Mei 1998. Lintang Utara, puteri Dimas dari perkawinan dengan Vivienne Deveraux, menyatakan keinginannya untuk ke Indonesia dan merekam pengalaman keluarga korban tragedi September 30 sebagai tugas akhir kuliah. Apa yang terkuak oleh Lintang bukan sekadar masa lalu ayahnya dengan Surti Anandari, tetapi juga bagaimana sejarah paling berdarah di negerinya mempunyai kaitan dengan Ayah dan kawan-kawan ayahnya. Bersama Segara Alam, putera Hananto Prawiro, Lintang menjadi saksi mata apa yang kemudian menjadi kerusuhan terbesar dalam sejarah Indonesia: kerusuhan Mei 1998 dan jatuhnya Presiden Indonesia yang sudah berkuasa selama 32 tahun. (http://gramediana.com/books/detail/901120609-pulang?locale=en)

Pulang (Indonesian Edition)

Sinopsis: 
ONE GLOOMY morning, Nadira Suwandi fi nds her mother has committed suicide. The death of Nadira’s mother Kemala Yunus, an expressive, free-thinking woman who always struggled to find her own self, comes as a shock. 
Kemala’s death infl uences Nadira’s life as a girl (“Sky Painting”), a journalist (“Prayer Beads), a lover (“Longest Kiss”) and a wife, and brings Nadira into an exploration of a new world, an untouched world of sexuality (“Kirana”). In the last two stories within this collection, “Before the Sun Rises” and “From New York to Legian”, we delve deeper into Nadira’s inner world.

For Nadira