This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women as he moves through the political minefields of a society designed to regulate his every move and stifle the promptings of his innermost heart. For more than seventeen years, this devoted and ambitious doctor has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman,…
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…
Perempuan yang Menunggu merupakan kumpulan cerpen yang pernah termuat di berbagai media massa. Bagi Dorothea, cerpen adalah pergulatan seorang penulis berhadapan dengan kenyataan hidup, suatu usaha menangkap realitas untuk kemudian menjadikannya sebagai realitas baru. Membaca cerpen-cerpen dalam buku ini memberikan kepada kita suatu dunia pengalaman yang menarik dan lain.
Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea tells the story of Santiago an old fisherman who spent eighty-four days without even catching a fish. At the beginning of forty days before Santiago was accompanied by a small boy named Manolin, in his fishing journey for forty days passed without any catch, Manolin's parents told him that the person had become a salao (taken in Spanish salado) which h…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…