Sebuah cangkir dan poci yang terbuat dari tanah liat kusandingkan bersama teh bubuk dan gula batu. Wangi melati perlahan menari di udara. Dalam setiap hirup kurasakan nyaman, dari tegukan demi tegukan yang melewari kerongkongan. Sedikit asam dan pahit berpadu dengan manis yang samar-samar. Kemudian, satu per satu rekaman cerita bermain dalam kepalaku. Terselip cerita lama yang harus kubuka k…
Mengambil latar belakang isu HIV/AIDS dengan segala permasalahannya, Dengan Hati bercerita tentang persahabatan Mila dan Santi melewati berbagai masalah yang mereka hadapi seputar isu ini. Ada Dini, seorang ODHA yang sedang hamil dan menerima perlakuan diskriminasi. Ada Ian, project manager yang konon mirip Dermott Mulroney. Dan ada Charlie, si rambut kecokelatan yang selalu menjaga Ian. Ada ci…
Roman Anak Semua Bangsa adalah periode observasi atau turun ke bawah mencari serangkaian spirit lapangan dan kehidupan arus bawah Pribumi yang tak berdaya melawan kekuatan raksasa Eropa. Di titik ini Minke diperhadapkan antara kekaguman yang melimpah-limpah pada peradaban Eropa dan kenyataan di selingkungan bangsanya yang kerdil. Sepotong perjalanannya ke Tulangan Sidoarjo dan pertemuannya deng…
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting portrait of a young man’s obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest to possess it fully. Mizoguchi, an ostracized stutterer, develops a childhood fascination with Kyoto’s famous Golden Temple. While an acolyte at the temple, he fixates on the structure’s aesthetic perfect…
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, th…
Top Ten Reasons Samantha Madison is in Deep Trouble 10. Her big sister is the most popular girl in school 9. Her little sister is a certified genius 8. She's in love with her big sister's boyfriend 7. She got caught selling celebrity portraits in school 6. And now she's being forced to take art classes 5. She's just saved the president of the United States from an assassination attempt 4…
Mia doesn't always have the best luck with parties, so even though it's her sweet sixteenth, she doesn't want a birthday bash. As usual, Grandmere has other ideas, and thinks a reality TV special is just the thing in order to celebrate royally. The whole scheme smacks of Lilly's doing -- Lilly, whose own TV show is still only limited to local cable viewers. Will Mia be able to stop Grandmere…
A National Book Award Finalist, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum's enchanting and inventive first novel is a groundbreaking, contemporary classic When a girl falls into a mysterious, impenetrable sleep, the borders between her provincial French village and the peculiar, beguiling realm of her dreams begin to disappear: A fat woman sprouts delicate wings and takes flight; a failed photographer stumbles …
Olivier is a French aristocrat. the traumatized child of survivors of the Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history. their lives will be brought together by their travels in America. When Olivier sets sail for the New World. ostensibly to study its prisons but in reality to save his neck fr…
Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years. At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for …