Nayla claims to never want love. All she wants to do, she claims, is to get drunk. Yet i suspect, what she really wants, what she truly needs, is to be drunk in love. -Ben But how can we tell what's in their minds? Not everyone is naive like her. If she be-have in such a sexually inviting manner, who can blame the men for hitting on Nayla? -Juli Her name is Nayla. My fellow counselors dislike her. They perceive her as arrogant because she comes from a rich and famous ...

They Say I'm a Monkey is a collection of short-stories from the young Indonesian writer Djenar Maesa Ayu. In the eleven stories, Djenar turns footnotes of urban Jakarta life, and the inner lives of the city's inhabitants, into stories that keep in their narratives both the magic and the realism of the place. Stories that will crawl out from the margins into the centre of your conscience. When They Say I'm a Monkey first appeared in Bahasa Indonesia in 2002, it shocked readers with its ...