This volume includes 10 short stories and 17 poems by Indonesian exile authors. It also includes 2 short stories by a “domestic” exile writer and 2 biographical stories of former political prisoners. Taken together, the materials present part of the Indonesian exile experience, a segment of Indonesia’s social history that has been ignored for far too long. ...

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 ...

Indonesia declared independence on August 17, 1945 Driven from the Dutch East Indies when the Japanese landed in 1942, The Netherlands refuses to recognize this declaration and sets out to recover their colony. The Dutch government decides to send a contingent to fight those it calls "terrorists". Among them, Johan Knevel, who was born "in the indies", hopes to regain the lost paradise of his childhood. He is faced with the reality of a war in which no one's hands are clean. ...

Indonesia declared independence on August 17, 1945 Driven from the Dutch East Indies when the Japanese landed in 1942, The Netherlands refuses to recognize this declaration and sets out to recover their colony. The Dutch government decides to send a contingent to fight those it calls "terrorists". Among them, Johan Knevel, who was born "in the indies", hopes to regain the lost paradise of his childhood. He is faced with the reality of a war in which no one's hands are clean. ...

You are not my first love, and you are not my first loss. But you are a chapter from the book of my life that i have a bookmark on. ...

His name is Ali, he’s sixteen years old, he’s in Class 11. If only his parents would let him, he ought to have been doing his senior year of a doctoral programme in physics at one of the best universities. Ali doesn’t like his school or his teachers or his classmates. He finds it all boring. But since he found out that there’s something odd about two of his classmates, me and Seli, his boring life has become fun. I can disappear and Seli can produce lightning. Ali himself has a small ...

"""Dulu? Dulu kamu sama seperti sekarang. Polos, lugu, manis, berbuat sesukanya, tak takut siapa pun. Pokoknya kamu tuh cewek yang sangat mengagumkan."" Kata-kata aneh itu keluar dari mulut CH alias Christopher Harley, cowok keren yang konon lagi jadi rebutan cewek-cewek di sekolah. Dan kata-kata itu bikin Ary bingung. Kenapa juga CH, cowok yang baru aja pindah ke kelas Ary tau-tau berlagak seperti udah kenal Ary selama ribuan tahun? Tapi, lagi-lagi Ary dibuat tambah bingung waktu ...

Zach thought he had a pretty ordinary life. That was until his hidden power was suddenly awakened one day when he was playing a video game with his sister and cousins. Apparently, their parents weren't ordinary human beings. They were in fact the kings and queens from another dimension called the Hero World. Now that their powers were awakened, Zach, his sister, and their three cousins were taken into the Hero World to have their new abilities honed. Before their skills were perfected, they ...

New York has become a cinematic icon often featured in movies, not just a setting but also as a character and subject of the story, like in Nora Ephron’s You’ve Got Mail, Woody Allen’s Annie Hall, and Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. New York is practically one of the most culturally distinctive places in the world that Raia, a writer, chose to flee to this city to chase inspirations after years of not being able to write even a single sentence, imprisoned by a haunting trauma. Raia ...

Set in the tumultuous days of the mid 1960s, The Dancer describes a village community struggling to adapt to a rapidly changing world. It also provides readers with a ground-level view of the political turmoil leading up to and following the abortive Communist coup. ...

7 Cerita dalam buku ini : 1. Rumah Pelangi (House of Rainbow) 2. Embun Pelangi Hilang (The Missing Rainbow Dew) 3. Penangkap Bintang (The Star Catcher) 4. Matahari yang Dingin (The Cold Sun) 5. Angin Aneh (The Strange Wind) 6. Ke mana Perginya Awan-awan itu? (The Cloud Shortage) 7. Kilat dan Guntur (Lightning and Thunder) Selama ratusan tahun, pembuatan pelangi dipercayakan pada seorang mahluk yang bijaksana dan kuat. Tapi seraya mahluk ...

"A story of human confusion in the midst of a fast-changing digital era, when humans don’t have much chance to stop, look back, and contemplate. Moving from one crowd to another, from connecting to alienating, we ¬ock to the future and leave the past behind. Technology has transformed human civilisation. Social network is the new world, where tremendous amount of time is spent running away from the harsh reality of life lled with defeat and absurdity. The novel portrays a young ...

Andrea Hirata is an Indonesian novelist. His debut novel The Rainbow Troops (known as Laskar Pelangi in Indonesia) shattered national sales records, making him the best selling author in Indonesia to date, reached over 5 millions readers, and contributed significantly to the development of modern Indonesian literature. The Rainbow Troops, set on Belitong Island, Indonesia, tells the story of a tight-knit group of students and their teachers fighting for education and dignity, even as they ...

The Windows is a novel about the life of a young couple. June, the main character, unfolds the sotry, she tells about her past, her friends, and many other stories related to her life. This novel takes place in different places, such as USA, Singapore, and Indonesia. Questions about the idea of life are clearly depicted in this novel. Why is a life not as easy as man expect> Why is a marriage life not always a happily ever after story, just like a beautiful pricess with her prince harming as ...

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 ...

Having memories is an undeniable part of being human. Memories, good or bad, stick in our heads, whether we want them to be or not, and memories sometimes come in many forms. In “Waking Up for the First Time”, Lala Bohang creates a series of fictional stories that resemble collages, which when viewed up close seem random and irregular, but when viewed from a distance, implied meanings. Lala experimented with writing styles which in hindsight seemed didactic, but also surreal. Just ...

For two teens, falling in love is going to make a world of difference in this beautifully translated, bold, and endearing novel about love, loss, and the pain of racial discrimination. As a Korean student in a Japanese high school, Sugihara has had to defend himself against all kinds of bullies. But nothing could have prepared him for the heartache he feels when he falls hopelessly in love with a Japanese girl named Sakurai. Immersed in their shared love for classical music and foreign movies, ...