Tahlil Nu

The men gathered. The tarpaulin flapped in a hot wind. Nu sat in the corner, holding a plate of pisang goreng he had no appetite for.

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His grandson, a boy named Nu, sat on the cold cement floor of the veranda. He was eleven. To him, the tahlil was just a sound: a monotonous drone of "Laa ilaha illallah" that rose and fell like the tide. The men brought their own kain sarung and cigarettes, the smoke curling up to mingle with the scent of kopi tubruk and cloves. The men gathered