Fiction
Gadis Kretek
Summary :
The king is dying. In waiting for death, he calls the name of a woman who is not his wife; Jeng Yah. His three children, heirs of the Djagad Raja Kretek, were consumed with dismay. The mother was burning with jealousy especially because her husband's last request was to meet Jeng Yah. So raced with the angel of death, Lebas, Karim, and Tegar, went to remote parts of Java to look for Jeng Yah, before death took his father.
The journey is like a trajectory of business and family secrets. Lebas, Karim, and Tegar met an old miller and uncovered the origins of Djagad Raja's kretek to become the number 1 kretek in Indonesia. More than that, the three of them also know their father's love story with Jeng Yah, who turns out to be the owner of Kretek Gadis, a local kretek Kota M which was famous in his day.
Did Lebas, Karim, and Tegar finally find Jeng Yah?
Kretek Girls don't just tell stories about love and the search for identity of the characters. With the background of Kota M, Kudus, Jakarta, from the Dutch colonial period to independence, Girl Kretek will bring readers acquainted with the development of the kretek industry in Indonesia. Rich in the smell of tobacco. Loaded with the scent of love.
| 1000169 | PL5089.K73 GAD k | English - Non Fiction (MISGS Library Secondary) | Available |
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