Lihatlah betapa waktu mengubah kita! Lihatlah berapa waktu telah mengubah jalan hidup kita dan meninggalkan kita dalam reruntuhan. Saat aku menggenggam tangan Selma untuk kucium, ia mendekat padaku dan mencium dahiku, lalu terduduk di bangku kayu. Ia menutup matanya dan berbisik lembut, "Oh Tuhan, ampunilah aku dan sambungkan sayap patahku!" Setiap laki-laki muda mengingat cinta pertamany…
Oh, Dzat yang maha pandai! Jatuhkanlah di dalam jiwaku benih Kebijakan-Mu sehingga akan tumbuh buah-buahan dalam belantara-Mu dan akan memberikan buah-Mu
... berkisah mengenai kearifan hidup yang disampaikan lewat tokoh utamanya, Almustafa. cerita berawal ketika Almustafa bersiap naik ke kapal menuju negeri asalnya setelah 12 tahun tinggal di negeri asing. Ia dihentikan oleh sekelompok penduduk negeri asing tersebut. mereka meminta Almustafa untuk berbicara mengenai rahasia yang terbentang antara kehidupan dan kematian.
At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just deserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancerstral home on the strakly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As three generations of his gamily cobble up new li…
Sexing the Cherry celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perceptions of history and reality; love and sex; lies and truths; and the twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands
"Marvellous trilogy... Fire Down Below brings the whole magical enterprise to a prosperous and happy conclusion." John Bayley, Guardian
"Golding's best and most accessible story since Lord of the Flies... What makes Rites of Passage such a pleasure, and such an artistic triumph, is the verve and buoyancy which Golding brings to potent themes.' Melvyn Bragg, Punch
A leathery bog-man transforms an old love affair; a sweet, gruesome gift is sent to the wife of an ex-lover; landscape paintings are haunted by the ghost of a young girl. This dazzling new collection of short stories takes us into familiar Atwood territory to reveal the many textures of contemporary life and the logic of irrational behaviour
'Thank you spider' (George Smith to the spider that caused him to comfort marvellous Miss Martin) 'She's a tall girl with gold hair.' 'This is no missing person's bureau' 'She swings her hips when she walks.' 'What are you, desperate, mister?' 'Yes.' (George Smith trying to find much more marvellous Miss Sally Tomson.) 'Bump.' (George Smith's heart after marvellous Miss Sally Tomson sa…
Written in 1938, Nausea remains one of the peaks of Sartre's achievement. It is a novel of the alienation of personality and the mystery of being, and presents us with the first full-length essay in the philosophy for which Sartre has since become famous. Nausea is a novel of brilliant observation, wit, and psychological penetration by one of the world's front-rank intellectuals