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Ground Zero: when the journey takes you home
After ten years wandering the world, Agustinus Wibowo has
finally come home. He is now forced to face a reality that
he has always feared. His mother is on the brink of death, as
cancer ravages her body.
Not unlike Scherazade who reads through one thousand
and one tales over as many nights, the traveller recounts his
journey to his ailing mother, who has barely ever left their
little village in Java, Indonesia.
He talks about the illusory homeland of China, the holy
Tibet, the spiritual Nepal, the dramatic India, the struggling
Pakistan, and the surviving Afghanistan. And along with
these stories, his mother nally nds a voice to recount her
own life journey. Fragments of their lives come together, two
distinctive roads spanning time and distance only to converge,
to become a heart-wrenching tale of love and survival.
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