JESSE dan DAVID Penjahat dan laki-laki terhormat-sebutan itulah yang paling tepat menjelaskan perbedaan mencolok di antara kedua laki-laki itu. Jesse adalah jenis laki-laki yang dilarang keras oleh ibumu: kasar, brengsek, liar, dan memiliki sisi sensual bad boy yang susah dijelaskan. Sedangkan David adalah laki-laki impian semua perempuan; dia lembut, penyayang.... Genggaman hangat tangannya s…
The Mimic Men is a work of fiction about a man who grew up on a Caribbean island called Isabella (not a real island). As an adult he moved to England for a while, came back to Isabella, trying to help reconstruct it after it stopped being an English colony and ultimately failing. The story has its moments. When he describes his life on the island, his family and relatives, I see glances of a v…
Antologi ini mengandungi 15 buah cerpen hasil karya A. Shukor Harun, Ahmad Mahmud, Nora , Rejab F.I. dan Sarah Rahim. Mereka memaparkan perit-getir kehidupan manusia, baik golongan bawahan mahupun golongan atasan. Watak-watak dalam karya mereka berjuang untuk mempertahankan nilai-nilai kemanusiaan murni yang kian tenggelam ditelan arus kehidupan moden...
Namun Pamuk tak hanya mengajak pembacanya untuk larut dalam cerita misteri pembunuhan, di bagian berikutnya pembaca diajak beralih ke kisah percintaan yang membara antara Hitam dan Shekure, lalu pembaca juga akan disuguhkan debat filosofis yang menarik akibat benturan budaya Timur dan Barat khususnya dalam hal gaya melukis dimana di jaman itu melukis dengan gaya kaum Frank (Eropa) yang mengguna…
In 'The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether', 'A Predicament', 'The Angel of the Odd' and other stories, characters are caught up in macabre situations, often with horrifying results. The poems are full of melancholic beauty whether in the disturbing images of death and events beyond the grave described in 'The Raven' and 'Lenore', or in the hypnotic fantasy of works such as 'The Bells',…
Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as…
A funny, often poignant tale of boy meets girl with a twist: what if one of them couldn't stop slipping in and out of time? Highly original and imaginative, this debut novel raises questions about life, love, and the effects of time on relationships. Audrey Niffenegger’s innovative debut, The Time Traveler’s Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresom…
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…