The Question of Red tells the story of two lovers, Amba and Bhisma, driven apart by one of the bloodiest Communist purges in the 20th century the massacres that took place in Indonesia between 1965 and 1968 in which some 1 million people were killed. From rural Java and Yogyakarta to the prison camps of Buru Island, where some 12,000 alleged Communists were incarcerated without trial during the Suharto administration, the lives of the central characters interpret the Mahabharata that timeless ...

She has been accused of heresy since she was born. She has been considered deviant and must be excommunicated. On behalf of faith and love, her marriage is sacrificed. On behalf of God, she and her family were expelled, and their home was destroyed. It has been seven years now that Maryam and hundreds of others live in a refugee camp at a small and cramped government-owned building in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. The story of Maryam is a sad tragedy within a country full of beauty. What they ...

This short story collection contains 13 short stories by Ahmad Tohari which were written between 1976 and 1986. Like his previous works, in this collection Tohari stays true to his path and presents the village life as well as the daily struggles of the poor and innocent people. As what has been described in the “Foreword”, Tohari’s strength lies in the village setting which is rich with intricate details about the local plants and animals. Apart from that, Tohari’s style is clear, ...

Buku berbahasa Inggris ini menguraikan bahwa kota Jakarta memiliki lima lapisan waktu yang saling tumpuk, saling berinteraksi, saling meniadakan, dan dalam tiap tumpukan memiliki kompleksitasnya sendiri. Penulis menelusuri jejak pengkolan dan puntiran dari setiap lapisannya. Penulis tidak hanya berhenti menelusuri masa lampau, tapi juga menganalisa, dan memberi arah bagaimana sebaiknya perubahan selanjutnya. ...

Lexi, Keira, Meg and Roxy - four names otherwise known as the Inner Circle. In West Pacific Preparatory School, and even in the private schools surrounding it, everybody knows their name, and everybody knows that they are at the top of the social ranking. It has always been this way for as long as anyone can remember… well, at least from the beginning of seventh grade. So when the second semester of freshman year rolled around, nobody expected anything to change in their social ...

Deskripsi in English Marni is an illiterate Javanese woman who still practices ancestor worship. Through her offerings she finds her gods and puts forth her hopes. She knows nothing of the God brought in from that faraway land. Rahayu is Marni’s daughter, part of a new generation shaped by education and an easier life. She is a firm believer in God and in common sense. She stands against the ancestors, even against her own mother. To Marni, Rahayu is a soulless being. And to Rahayu, Marni is ...

I wanted to climb to the summit of challenges, attack my way through hardships as solid as granite, tempt all sorts of peril, and break through mysteries with science. I longed to inhale all sorts of experience and then explore the labyrinthine ins and outs of life that in the end cannot be guessed. I yearned for possibilities that react with each other, like the collision of uranium molecules: binding, multiplying, bursting, and dispersing in unexpected directions. I wanted to go to faraway ...

"This is the story of a white woman who lived for fifteen years in Indonesia---living, not visiting---knowing the country and its people, from the highest and the lowest, and sharing their joys and their sorrows."K'tut Tantri was looking for a land of peace and beauty, and found her paradise in Bali. Through the eyes of Prince Anak Agung Nura, she fell in love with the people and its culture, and began what will become a lifelong friendship. When war shattered her languid life in the island of ...

suatu malam, beberapa bulan setelah pernikahan Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes datang ke tempat tinggal Watson. Lantas, Holmes meminta Watson untuk menemaninya ke Aldershot. Ada satu kasus yang terjadi. Seorang mantan kolonel polisi bernama Barclay, tewas di salah satu kamar di rumahnya sendiri. Sementara, istrinya tergeletak pingsan tak jauh darinya. Yang aneh dari kasus ini adalah kunci kamar hilang entah ke mana. Dalam menangani kasus ini, Holmes menemukan petunjuk: jejak seekor binatang mirip ...

Danarto is a master short story writer, whose roots reach deep into the Indonesian subconscious. His style is easy and lyrical, yet he deals with subjects of tremendous importance love, death and the possible spiritual greatness of human being.Could man become God? Could he be perfect? Could he bear the rustle of distant breathing? This is a ridiculous dream: it is barely possible that man can become God. It is barely possible that God wants to reveal Himself physically.Burton Raffel has ...

Hari-hari yang pinky sungguh membuat Aisyah bingung. Bingung dengan kelakuan keempat abangnya berburu hadiah serba pink. Bingung dengan ulah teman-temannya yang sibuk cari pasangan. Aisyah juga bingung, kenapa justru warna pink yang muncul di wajahnya ketika Mr. Penyair menghampiri? Lalu apa arti momen pink itu bagi Elisa, si mantan model? Kenapa pula bayangan valentine yang romantis dan pinky, mendadak berubah mengerikan dan penuh horor? Semua dimulai ketika valentine itu datang. Ya, ...

Pain is there to protect you. Eighteen-year-old Tara was found in a wooden chest, while the rest of her family were murdered. She can't remember what happened. The police try to find the killer through severely traumatised Tara with the help of her psychiatrist. When the truth unraveled, the mystery grows deeper: Are you really a survivor, or everyone else was trying to survive from you? One of exceptional Indonesian psychological thrillers, Catharsis explores the mysteries of memory, the ...

Here’s to all the seconds spent waiting for a text that never comes, to all the years searching for the one that gets away, finding the right person and doing all the wrong things, to the love you lost in the winds of time and comes back lifetimes later, to the strings of chances and fates that tie us together. **** Chances, Spelled in Poetry adalah kumpulan puisi yang ditulis oleh Helena Natasha, seorang penulis dan penyair Indonesia. Buku ini diterbitkan pada tahun 2023 ...

Lova Evangeline terjebak di antara "dua dunia": Satu, dunia tempatnya berurusan dengan manusia. Dua, dunia tempatnya bersinggungan dengan makhluk-makhluk tak kasatmata. Kemampuan konjurasi telah mempertemukan Lova dengan dua spiritnya, Nathaniel dan Rose. Berkat kehadiran mereka, Lova bisa menghalau gangguan makhluk gaib di sekitarnya. Akan tetapi kemampuan Lova untuk hidup damai teruji saat tunangannya mulai menunjukkan sifat abusif, sementara Nathaniel mulai menunjukkan ketertarikan ...

From the beginning Agung Rai was aware that reality is not slogan, and that slogan is not reality. Here is the place of in Bali with its highest awareness of uniqueness and the needs to preserve it. Also seeing Tri Hita Karana on trap of asphalt, concrete and kind of chemical poisons, but from twenty years ago, he made a tangible garden to meet Tri Hita Karana and it works: Nature, Sang Hyang Widhi and human made. Place where paintings made by maestro are shown, also gamelan (local instrument) ...

The foundation of Hollywood formula is the meet-cute. ,It's when the female protagonist and the male protagonist meet by accident, a so-called chance encounter. Anya didn't believe in meet-cute. lt never happened in real life, she said. That is until-she met Ale on a flight)from Jakarta to Sydney-, as they were seated next to each other, and one silly incident led to seven hours of conversation between them. Seven hours of laughter and smiles, seven hours that soon changed them from strangers ...

Description Children who go to international schools often feel disconnected and unaware of their heritage. They speak, read, and write in languages other than their native tongue and sometimes lack appreciation of their home country. It happened to Andari Deswandhy, a sixteen-year-old girl who has been educated by foreign school systems since early childhood. As a result, she felt that she had to change this reality somehow. Andari began to learn about her Indonesian heritage by reading ...

English Classics: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland "I knew who i was this mornig, but I;ve changed a few times since then." English Classics is literature's collection with particular rooms for increase reader's interest in reading classics. This book including Alice In Wonderland as one of the collections. Alice in Wonderland is about young girl who fall inside a rabbit hole and find the wonderful, magical, and fantastic world. ...

”There is some good in every person if you can find it. It is a teacher’s duty to find and develop it.” ...