In 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles, yearns to escape and read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway. And Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich village apartment in 1990s New York to buy flowers for a party she is hosting for a dying …
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi'…
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…
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…