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Saman (English)
Saman is a story filtered through the lives of its feisty female protagonists and the enimatic "hero" Saman. It is at once an expose of the oppreseeion of plantation workers in Sputh Sumatra as well as lyrical quest to understand the place of religion and spirituality in contemporary lives. It is a playful exploration of female sexuality and a story about love in all its guises while touching on all of Indonesia's taboos. Saman has taken the Indonesian literary world by storm and sold over 100000 copies in the Indonesian language and has been translate into nine languages.
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