Part of Series
Pesawat kecil kami mendarat di negeri antah-berantah. Saat pesawat itu mulai merendah, aku bisa melihat hamparan hijau yang tak terlalu lebat, juga tak benar-benar hijau. Hijau yang kering dan lesu, namun justru terlihat ramah dan tak menakutkan untukku. Perjalanan ke salah satu wilayah terluar Indonesia mengantarkan Matara, gadis berusia dua belas tahun, pada petualangan menakjubkan yang belum pernah ia bayangkan. Dunia yang serbaganjil pun menjadi sebuah kenyataan baru untuknya.
Author
Okky Madasari is an Indonesian novelist. She is well-known for her social criticism with her fiction highlighting social issues, such as injustice and discrimination, and above all, about humanity. In academic field, her main interest is on literature, censorship and freedom of expression, and sociology of knowledge. Since 2010 Okky has published 10 books, comprising of five novels, one short-story collection, three children’s novels and one non-fiction book. Her newest book (2019) is Genealogi Sastra Indonesia: Kapitalisme, Islam dan Sastra Perlawanan or “Genealogy of Indonesian Literature: Capitalism, Islam and Critical Literature”, which is published online and can be freely downloaded from her website www.okkymadasari.net. Okky’s novels have been translated into English, Germany and Arabic.
