As the Japanese military invades 1930s Manchuria, a young girl approaches her own sexual coming of age. Drawn into a complex triangle with two boys, she distracts herself from the onslaught of adulthood by playing the game of go with strangers in a public square--and yet the force of desire, like the occupation, proves inevitable. Unbeknownst to the girl who plays go, her most worthy and freque…
Novel ini ditulis Raditya Dika dengan berusaha memahami apa itu cinta dengan mengintrospeksi dirinya berdasar pengalaman pribadinya selama ini. Dan sampai pada halaman terakhir yang ditulisnya, dia tetap tidak mengerti apa itu cinta, sama ketika dia mengawali buku ini pada halaman pertama. Dika merasa seperti seekor marmut merah jambu yang terus–menerus jatuh cinta, loncat dari satu relation…
Selama ini Karra mengganggap Ibel sebagai kakak, jadi dia cuek aja waktu Ibel menunjukkan perhatian. Karra malah ditaksir Dira, anak baru di sekolah yang juga jago main basket. Tampang Dira yang sok cool tapi sengak bikin Karra sebel banget sama cowok itu. Tapi katanya batas anatara cinta dan benci kan tipis banget. Iya ngga sih?
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Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to forgetfulness, LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings, which reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known. . . . In a remote mountain village where ghosts and tradition rule, LuLing grows up in the care of her mute Precious Auntie as the family endures a curse laid upon a re…
At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England’s irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a kno…
In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity. The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core of his father's self-denial and vowing to live mo…