Karana is the Indian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Year after year she waited for a ship to rescue her. But while she waited, she kept herself alive by building shelter, making weapons, finding food, and fighting her enemies, the wild dogs. Hers is not only an unusual adventure of survival, but also a tale of natural beauty and personal discovery
The God of Small Things explores the tragic fate of a family which 'tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how." -- Christina Patterson, Observer
San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memory grows as thickl…
"... 80 persen dari 17 cerpen yang dipilih di sini hampir semua melukiskan kondisi fisis dan psikis dari kalangan bawah atau marginal yang serba kalang-kabut." - Y.B. Mangunwijaya
Kotowaru hyougen adalah ungkapan yang digunakan untuk menolak atau tidak menerima usul atau permintaan lawan bicara. Direct atau penolakan langsung merupakan strategi yang menampilkan tindak ilokusi, penolakan yang jelas, tidak bermakna ambigu ayau lebih ringkas. Penolakan yang disampaiakn secara langsung. Indirect atau penolakan tidak langsung. Di dalam strategi ini, penolakan dilakukan melal…
merupakan kumpulan cerita dari mitologi Yunani Kuno
After four years' separation, Alison had been forced to return to her husband Dirk du Bois; blackmailed by his threat to take their little son away from her if she didn't agree. But it was clear that Dirk hated her now, and was as indifferent to her as he had been when they were first married - so why did he insist that she stayed with him? For Yvette Paulson, who had broken up the marriage, wa…
After only a few days of marriage, Tanya had been separated from her husband Adrian and trapped ini her own country behind the Iron Curtain. Now, years later, she had managed to escape and had sought Adrian out at last. But, thinking his marriage was over, Adrian was planning to marry another girl - and heartlessy made it clear to Tanya that he no longer wanted her. But that was not the end of …