What could happen to a missing woman for twenty years? If the approach is already suggestive from the perspective of a society like ours, the matter takes on a sinister turn if we locate the plot in Indonesia.
In this country where religion and government are intertwined until complete confusion, the role of women is still secondary today. Let's not say anything from a few decades ago. Without going any further, the approaching XNUMXth century was a dark path for everyone born with female sexuality as a stigma for their entire life.
In that not-so-distant setting, this story is presented to us. Dewi Ayu appears after those twenty years in which she had already been left for dead. Her dedication to prostitution did not anticipate anything good from day 1 of her disappearance. But Dewi had not passed away, and she has a lot to tell us since that day of her return home.
Leaving four daughters cannot be a tasteful dish for a mother. The explanations that Dewi can offer us will always offer shadows about the need for her disappearance, but she was clear about it.
While Dewi was young and dedicated to sex work, her fame as one of the best lovers and her extraordinary beauty led her to the highest social spheres of a highly stratified society like hers.
And little by little we will try to understand your decision. Because Dewi tried to change her future and that of her daughters, as well as that of any woman in Indonesia, and for that she had to stick to a plan ...
A novel that brings us closer to cruel realities marked by sex, violence and that role of women that made them inferior not only in Indonesia and not only in the recent past ...
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