Chairil adalah personalitas yang terbelah. Ia punya sajak Aku, yang menjadi suluh di kerak malam, yang membangun ketangguhan dalam situasi ketika racun berada di reguk pertama/membusuk rabu terasa di dada/tenggelam darah dalam nanah. Tapi Chairil juga mendedahkan Cemara Menderai Sampai Jauh. Kepasrahan pada hidup yang rapuh, yang hanya menunda kekalahan, sebagaimana kekalahannya dalam menaklukk…
The three plays translated in this volume, Time Bomb, Cockroach Opera, and Julini's Opera, share the same setting and cast of characters. Through their songs, colloquial language, and raunchy humor, they illustrate a blending of the energy of indigenous folk expression and the style of a Western musical. The mixture creates a kaleidoscopic presentation likely to appeal to sophisticated urban au…
The six plays in this collection by Ikranagara (1943-2023) were written and performed by his theater Teater Senja between 1975 and 1997 during INdonesia's New Orde Era (1966 -1998) when freedom of speech was severely curtailed under the autocratic rule of President Soekarno. The New Order regime was plugued by corruption, collusion, and nepotism with widespread allegations of goverment official…
Sulastri and Sudarmo, the protagonists of Suwarsih Djojopuspito’ novel, Against the Grain, faced the inevitability of such events as teachers in one of the unauthorized (“wild”) schools of 1930’s Java. This strongly autobiographical work depicts the lives of Indonesians, particularly its youth, who were imbued with the ideals of nationalism and independence in the 1930s. But the depicti…
On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice. All at once her cheerful, can-do mother tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes perilous. Anything can be revealed at any meal. Rose's gift forces her to c…
Kim Cheng Boey writes a travel memoir which explores the condition of the migrant writer, living between the place of his birth, his adopted country, and the wider world; between the past and the present; between the city he is in, and the cities that live in his memory and imagination. The book maps his trajectory through India, China, Pakistan, to Egypt and Morocco, during the year of his wan…
The Rules of Engagement is the twenty second novel by Anita Brookner, the Booker Prize winning author of Hotel du Lac. Elizabeth and Betsy are old school friends. Born in 1948 and unready for the sixties, they had high hopes of the lives they would lead, even though their circumstances were so different. When they meet again in their thirties, Elizabeth, married to the safe, older Digby is reli…
The sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, set shortly after the events in the first book A fantastical tale of endless imagination, this story follows the adventures of a young boy named Tip, who, for as long as he can remember has been under the guardianship of a witch named Mombi in the Land of Oz. One night he plans his escape to the Emerald City, stealing Mombi's powder of life. Along th…
This #1 "New York Times" bestseller gets a limited-edition version with movie art and a new introduction and updated epilogue from the authors. "Heaven Is for Real" is the true story of the four-year-old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who, during emergency surgery, slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor…
With unraveled embroidery and fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back for one last, glorious summer. It’s a summer that will forever change the lives of Lena, Bridget, Tibby, and Carmen, here and now, past and future, together and apart. Lena: Immerses herself in her painting and an intoxicating summer fling, fearing that the moment she forgets about Kostos will be the moment she sees h…