That night they were going to have dinner with Pak Harto and his wife.
Chapter 43
On their way to the village, Adi asked the taxi driver to stop at a market where they bought baskets of fruit for the family households they would be visiting. Their first stop was the house of his eldest brother Budi in Masaran but, when they arrived, the neighbours told them Budi and Nur had gone to Solo for the day. So they left a fruit basket for them and, from there, Adi directed the driver to take a route that approached the village via a straight tree-lined road that sliced through a grid of silver sky mirrors, all with even spiky rows of newly planted rice seedlings.
Each plot appeared to be a regular-sized rectangle lined with narrow trimmed banks. “How does everyone know who owns the plots? Are t
