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…
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…
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…
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, a long-serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip through the West Country. The six-day excursion becomes a journey into the past of Stevens and England, a past that takes in fascism, two world wars, and an unrealised love between the butler and his housekeeper.
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)