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Nenden Lilis A.

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Nenden Lilis A.

Nenden Lilis A., born in Malangbong-Garut (West Java) in 1971, works as a lecturer in the Department of Education and Literature at the Indonesian Education University (UPI/Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia) in Bandung. Both her short fiction and poems have appeared in numerous national publications as well as in anthologies....

She is a frequent invitee to literary conferences both at home and abroad (Malaysia, the Netherlands, and France). Her poems have been translated into English, Dutch, and German.

The Rooms Out Back

By Nenden Lilis A.

I said we rise at 7:30 but we actually wake up at 4:30—before our baby's first cries and the morning call to prayer

Translated from Indonesian by John H. McGlynn

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Nenden Lilis A.

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The Rooms Out Back