Garis Batas / Borderlines

What Do They Say on Garis Batas?

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Borderlines: Journey in Central Asia

What country is there beyond the river? Everyday, the Afghan villagers stare at a “foreign land” just across the river. They see cars passing without ever knowing how it feels to sit inside a car. They look at grandeur houses, while they live in mud huts. They look at modern girls in jeans laughing and dancing, while their women are illiterate and never leave home.

The foreign land seems so beautiful, but it’s only a fantasy. A three dimensional fantasy lingering their dreams. Different fantasies of different people on different sides of the borders.

The same fantasy takes Agustinus Wibowo to travel to mysterious countries in Central Asia. Tajikistan. Kyrgyzstan. Kazakhstan. Uzbekistan. Turkmenistan. His journey brings you up the snowy mountain, across the meadow, soaking in traditions and civilization along the Silk Road, and having some communism nostalgia under the ghost of Soviet Union. It also reveals men’s destiny separated by boundaries.

Paperback, 528 pages
Published April 14th 2011 by Gramedia Pustaka Utama
ISBN: 9789792268843
edition language: Indonesian