Zaira, tokoh utama dalam cerita ini telah melewati berbagai tahap kehidupan. Mulai dari bergelimangan harta, ketenaran sampai pada titik yang paling fatal: kehilangan akal sehatnya. Pada saat manusia kehilangan harapan maka yang ada hanya kepasrahan. Lebih baik mati daripada hidup tanpa harapan. Tapi, apa jadinya jika upaya mendapatkan kematian itu pun tak lagi bisa dilakukan? Takdir berbicara. Tuhan ada di hati kita. Semoga kita semua tidak lupa pada hati nurani dan berhenti mencari karena ...

ONE GLOOMY morning, Nadira Suwandi fi nds her mother has committed suicide. The death of Nadira’s mother Kemala Yunus, an expressive, free-thinking woman who always struggled to fi nd her own self, comes as a shock. Kemala’s death infl uences Nadira’s life as a girl (“Sky Painting”), a journalist (“Prayer Beads), a lover (“Longest Kiss”) and a wife, and brings Nadira into an exploration of a new world, an untouched world of sexuality (“Kirana”). In the last two ...

In the fast-paced world where conscience is often swallowed by the daily struggles to survive, one little family maintains their true principle that honesty is the best policy. Though stricken with poverty, Cemara's family continues to live with gratefulness, kindness, and resilience. Cemara, the main character of this heartwarming novel, is a bright and lovely little girl who's still in kindergarten. She lives with Abah, the breadwinner of the family, who works as a pedicab driver and ...

This book is an anthology of Ahmad Tohari’s fifteen short-stories that had appeared in countless newspapers between 1983 and 1997. Like his novels, his short-stories always have distinct characteristics. He always portrays the lives of the poor people or the low working class, with all their pain and struggles. Ahmad Tohari knew their lives well. As a result, he was able to weave the stories with a touching sympathy and empathy that can enrich the readers’ mind. ...

A young Indonesian woman with an ailing mother and a celebrity father whose moon is on the wane. A painful family secret dragged into the open, a subversive Western lecturer, and nowhere else to turn. A steady drift into dangerous waters, a choice between black and white when everything seems grey. ‘A simple and perceptive drama, Annisa shines a light on social matters close to the hearts of many Indonesians.’ Muzakkir Husain, Berita Satu ...

Is Kirk Coningham just another bule choked by the black, leaded hands of the third-world city he lives in? Who, gasping for air, and getting more black fingers stuck up his nose, thinks he can write a book about the city and the black wounds it left in his head? Yes.But Coningham has conscience. His stories are angry at the misogyny of the white expats The Expats, sad at the nearly-doomed love between a motorbike-taxi driver and an office worker Ojek Driver and equally exasperated and ...

Rani is a 16-year-old teenage girl who was born and grew up in Bandung. She started to experience strange things after her parents’ divorce, started when she got lost on a hill without a peak, then she received a visit from an uncle and cousin she had never known existed. She was introduced to Javanese culture and finally found a portal that leads to another world! Not stopping there, Rani and her cousin, Bima, dared to enter the portal and discovered that the things hidden through the ...

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 ...