The Distant Threshold

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Could a man be erased by his own hands? Salmah bin Ismail stood before the damp brick of the tenement wall, his trowel slick with mortar that refused to set. The year was 1949, and the Jakarta air hung heavy with the smell of wet palm fronds and kerosene fumes. He was thirty-two, a mason in a city that was dissolving, and he held a clay jar in his left hand, warm against his palm like a living...

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