She is called Nurdane, the famed weaver of Mavisu. From her remote mountain village in southwestern Turkey, she creates dowries for young brides: dazzling rugs that are marvels of shape and color, texture and light. Her unique rugs possess remarkable healing qualities that have inspired local legend, but it is her hands that are at the heart of her mystery. An artist's hands. A virgin's hands. …
Charles is a middle-aged professor at a minor liberal-arts college, a once promising poet, admiring of passion but without passion himself. Without knowing why, he decides to attend his thirtieth college reunion. And there, he magically witnesses a replay of his senior year. Drawn back into his memories, Charles watches his tender and romantic twenty-two-year-old self embark on an all-consum…
The stories in Midnight All Day show a contemporary master at the top of his form, acclaimed by one reviewer for his depiction of 'a lost generation of men: those shaped by the sixties, disoriented by the eighties and bereft of a personal and political map in the nineties'. We are unerring in our choice of lovers, particularly when we require the wrong person. There is an instinct, magnet or…
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, a long-serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip through the West Country. The six-day excursion becomes a journey into the past of Stevens and England, a past that takes in fascism, two world wars, and an unrealised love between the butler and his housekeeper.
Better known as lIfe's Littel Ironies, this selection of tales was the third that Hardly collected himself for publication as a volume and it reflects the experience of a novelist who was at the height of his creative powers. The tales are thematically linked by a concern with the diverse problems of marriage, yet they display the full range of Hardy's art. Firmly rooted in the culture of Wesse…
Dalam novel ini, Raditya Dika menceritakan kesehariannya dari dia mau masuk SMA 70 biar bisa mainin burung sampe ke cerita cintany yang pastinya sangat kocak. Berikut potongan cerita dalam novel ini: Kesurupan Mbak Minah semakin menjadi-jadi. Tubuhnya semakin susah dikendalikan oleh kita bertiga. Lalu tiba-tiba Ingga, Ingga berkata, ‘Pencet idungnya, Bang.’ ‘Apa?’ …
Malam Biru lanskap langit mencurahkan biru ke januari matamu binar bulan mencurahkan waktu ke biru langit matamu marak malam mencurahkan aku ke cakrawala matamu (Joko Pinurbo, 2003)
Dua orang tak kukenal begitu saja menggelandang Mas Joyo saat kami menanti bus kota. Berhari-hari aku mencari. Seorang aparat yang kudatangi dengan sinis berkata bahwa sahabatku aktivis itu sudah menjadi "Bubur".....
Dia tidak tahu bagaimana caranya bisa pulang ke rumah. Cuma keasingan yang menyerbu dirinya dan matanya kini membasah. Kalau saingannya perempuan, dia sudah menyusun strategi untuk mengalahkan saingannya. Jika perempuan itu lebih cantik daripada dirinya, dia akan mencari potensi yang ada dalam dirinya, dia tahu Doni melihat kecerdasan adalah bagian yang indah dalam dirinya. Namun, saingannya...…
Three's company.... Best chums Sally, Jude, and Michael are living the single life in cool flats a mere stone's throw apart in London. But the girls find the sitcom life they love taking an unexpected twist when Michael's new girlfriend, Katie, moves in with him. Michael's a notorious womanizer -- he broke it off with Sally years ago -- and the girls have gotten used to his endless parade of b…