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 ...

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 ...

One Boy, One Boat, One Tiger After a tragic shipwreck, a solitary lifeboat is left at the mercy of the wld blue waters of the Pacific. The only survivors are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a zebra with a broken leg, a hyena, an orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. Now a major motion picture from acclaimed director Ang Lee, the much loved Life of Pi is a bewitching tale of adventure and friendship - and of finding courage in the most unexpected places. "Every page offers ...

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 ...