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“Cigarette Girl” by Ratih Kumala

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Redolent of the ubiquitous Indonesian kreteks, Cigarette Girl follows three generations of two Javanese families from the time of the Dutch surrender to the Japanese in 1942, via the crackdown on the communists and the massacres of 1965, to the present.

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Posted on 14 March 201714 March 2017 FictionReviews

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