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 ...

Lelaki tua yang kumal, bau, dan tulalit itu melakukan perjalanan pulang dengan kereta api. Pulang! Alangkah indahnya kata itu! Segala kerinduan akan masa lalu, akan dapat terpenuhi.Masa-masa kecil yang bahagia seakan dapat diraih kembali dalam pelukan. Dapatkah lelaki tua itu sampai ke rumahnya? Tidak! Ia sudah mencoba ratusan kali, tetapi tidak pernah berhasil. Ia bahkan melihat mayatnya sendiri di rumahnya, dan para tetangga meyakinkan bahwa itu memang mayatnya. Kembali ke stasiun ia ...

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 ...

Sex, Power and Nation, brings together for the first time Julia Suryakusuma's essays spanning 24 years of writing, applying her analysis to Suharto's regime and that of Indonesia's fledgling democratic politicians.Divided into three parts: "Building a New Nation?", "Sex and Power", and "Literature: Exploration and Boundaries" the book explores the characteristics, hypocrisy, sex manipulations of the New Order regime in the great nation through the eyes of a feminist ...

Inilah himpunan lengkap pertama puisi-puisi dari lima windu karir Goenawan Mohamad, sang penyair, eseis dan wartawan Indonesia. *** "... ciri khas yang paling menonjol, dan yang menjadikan puisi ini mempesona dan sekaligus sering sukar dipahami secara rasional ialah semantik kata. Metaforiknya sangat orisinal, kaya dan kuat, acap kali mengejutkan atau membingungkan .... Lebih khas lagi cara sajak Goenawan Mohamad sering mempertahankan asosiasi yang ditimbulkan oleh metafor atau perumpamaan ...