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…
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…
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)
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…
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…