Buat apa kamu memikirkan apa yang dipikirkan orang lain? Buat apa kamu mencemaskan apa yang akan dinilai orang lain? Kekhawatiran, juga kecemasan yang sejatinya mungkin tidak pernah ada. Tentang seorang kakak yang mengorbankan apa pun agar adik-adiknya bisa sekolah. Tentang rasa sabar dan penerimaan. Tentang keluarga yang penuh perjuangan. Dulu, sekarang, hingga kapanpun, dia adalah Kakakku.
Remi 16 tahun, hanya satu dari sedikit populasi siswa aneh dan introver di sekolahnya. Bukan kutu buku, bukan juga genius perfeksionis. Sehari-hari hanya berkhayal, berkeliaran, dan menghabiskan waktu sendirian. Karena suatu mimpi, dia bertekad melakukan perubahan dengan melibatkan Kino, ketua kelasnya yang supel. Bersama Kino, dia memulai pemberontakan yang mengajarkan hal-hal baru soal persah…
Mengejar jejal sebuah email, telah membawa faras menjelajah satu tempat ke tempat lain. Dari Borobudur hingga Tanjung Bira. Hanya untuk mencegah luapan dendam sebuah hati yang merasa memiliki sepuluh alasan untuk membunuh ayahnya. Namun, dengan sepuluh alasan pulalah Raja Ikhsan, sang pendaki tangguh akhirnya berhasil menguarkan dendam itu di puncak Mahameru. Dan, di altitude 3676, ketinggian 3…
Hujan Bulan Juni pertama kali diterbitkan oleh Grasindo tahun 1994 dan telah dicetak ulang beberapa kali. Tidak ada perubahan penting dalam buku terbitan editum ini, kecuali penambahan dan penghapusan beberapa sajak berdasarkan pertimbangan praktis. Sajak-sajak dalam buku ini dipilih dari beberapa buku puisi yang pernah terbit sebelumnya, yakni duka-Mu abadi (1969), Mata Pisau (1974), Akuarium …
Mari kuceritakan kisah sedih tentang kehilangan. Rasa sakit yang merupa serta perih yang menjejakkan duka. Namun, jangan terlalu bersedih, karena aku akan menceritakan pula tentang harapan. Tentang cinta yang tetap menyetia meski takdir hampir kehilangan pegangan. Mari kuceritakan tentang orang-orang yang bertemu di bawah langit sewarna biru. Orang-orang yang memilih marah, lalu saling menor…
One of Zola's most famous realist novels, Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower classes in nineteenth-century Parisian society. Set in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a dingy haberdasher's shop in the passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, this powerful novel tells how the heroine and her lover, Laurent, kill her husband, Camille, but are subs…
"Aku tak percaya bapak-bapak anggota dewan, aku lebih percaya kepada dinding toilet."
Hidup A.J Fikry jauh dari yang diharapkannya. Istrinya meninggal, penjualan di toko bukunya merosot tajam, dan hartanya yang paling berharga, koleksi puisi Poe yang langka, abru saja hilang dicuri. Pelan tapi pasti dia menjauhkan diri dari semua orang di Pulau Alice. Bahkan ia tak lagi menemukan kegembiraan dari buku-buku di tokonya. Tetapi kemudian paket misterius muncul di tokonya. Paket itu …
Tema besar pertama adalah temtamg kekejaman rezim dalam pergolakan politik. Tema kedua tentang relasi sosial yang tak setara. Akibat relasi seperi itu bisa terjadi ketimpangan sosial dan kemiskinan dalam ruang-ruang ekonomi, tetapi juga melahirkan upaya-upaya bertahan hidup dengan beragam cara. Tema ketiga tentang relasi personal yang rumit melahirkan konflik-konflik tak terduga. Dan Tema terak…
Aku ini binatang jalang adalah kumpulan puisi terlengkap karya penyair terbesar Indonesia Chairil Anwar. Selama ini puisi-puisinya tersebar dalam beberapa buku seperti Deru Campur Debu, Kerikil Tajam dan Yang Terampas dan Yang Putus. Sebagian lagi ada dalam Tiga Menguak Takdir dan Chairil Anwar Pelopor Angkatan 45. Selain keseluruhan sajak asli dalam koleksi ini juga dimuat untuk pertama kaliny…
For the batik-makers, canting, the copper pens to paint batik, are their spirits. At its most glorious moment canting is blown with deep and powerful feelings that are blended with the owner’s breath. But nowadays, hand-painted batik that is made by using a canting is crushed and cornered with the emerging of the new print batik. Hand-painted batik takes months and months to make, but this ne…
"From an up-and-coming screenwriter and New Yorker contributor, a hilarious novel in letters by members of an unconventional family, running the gamut from sardonic to heartfelt. From filmmaker and New Yorker contributor Susanna Fogel comes a comedic novel about a fractured family of New England Jews and their discontents, over the course of three decades. Told entirely in letters to a heroine …
"Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his gri…
Why are novels so popular? What makes a novel different from other types of writing? How can you find the right novel for you? Delve into literature and discover exactly what a novel is. What makes a great novel? How are characters important? What is a setting? Using great examples from past and present, this book explains clearly what is meant by a novel, before prompting you to write your own!
Amazing Decisions follows the narrator, Adam, as he faces the daily barrage of choices and deliberations. He juggles two overlapping--and often contradictory--sets of norms: social norms and market norms. These norms inform our thinking in ways we often don't notice, just as Adam is shadowed by the "market fairy" and the "social fairy," each compelling him to act in certain ways. Good decision-…
An autobiographical novel. On Indonesia's Belitong Island--impoverished and tyrannized by tin-mining interests--a wily group of schoolchildren fight for their right to education.
Namanya Salva, panggilannya Ava. Namun papanya memanggil dia Saliva atau ludah karena menganggapnya tidak berguna. Ava sekeluarga pindah ke rusun nero setelah Kakek Kia meninggal. Kakek Kia, ayahnya papa, pernah memberi ava kamus sebagai hadiah ulang tahun yang ketiga. Sejak itu Ava menjadi anak yang pintar berbahasa Indonesia. Sayangnya, kebanyakan orang dewasa lebih menganggap penting anak ya…
The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, who is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack. Buck is a dog born to luxury, but his life changes dramatically when he is sold to be a sled dog in the Yukon Terrority. He earns a reputation for his strength and courage, and is rescued from a series of bad owners by…
The Supper Club are attending the San Diego Comic-con when a piece of experimental technology is stolen by a real-life superhero turned real-life supervillain! Will Sherlock Sam, Watson and the rest of the gang be able to rush across the country to rescue the priceless technology from the clutches of this evil-doer? Or is this the end of the world as we know it?
In 1980s Singapore, a top civil servant is found dead. It appears to be suicide, by a cocktail of morphine, alcohol and Valium. But upon investigation by a CID inspector, who might not be what he seems, the family discover there may be far more sinister circumstances behind his death, reaching the uppermost echelons of government. Death of a Perm Sec exposes the dark heart of power politics, fr…
Winter Blue is a fairy-child. She leads parallel lives in two worlds – the world of humans, and another, secret, wondrous world – Magic-Land. As an ordinary thirteen-year-old girl she attends school every day, does her homework, and spends time with her friends, none of whom know her secret. Each night, she turns into a fairy and flies to Magic-Land where she meets other fairies, dwarf…
Retells the adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo. This extraordinary voyage into the depths of the unknown aboard the legendary submarine nautilus commanded by brilliant, tragic Captain Nemo explores both the limitless possibilities of science and twist…
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, expect that he has been raised by ghost and other denizens of the graveyard.
A moving story of a woman with early onset Alzheimer's disease, now a major Academy Award-winning film starring Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart. Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty, she's a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a renowned expert in linguistics, with a successful husband and three grown children. When she begins to grow forgetful a…
In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives - until their own inner crise…
In 1962, Madeleine L’Engle debuted her novel A Wrinkle in Time, which would go on to win the 1963 Newbery Medal. Bridging science and fantasy, darkness and light, fear and friendship, the story became a classic of children’s literature and is beloved around the world. Now Disney is taking it to the silver screen! With an all-star cast that includes Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Ka…
This novel examines family ties and the legacy of the Vietnam War through the portrait of a single North Florida family. Profound and poignant, it is an examination of relationships, personal choice and how war resonates down the generations. Robert Quinlan is a seventy-year-old historian, teaching at Florida State University, where his wife Darla is also tenured. Their marriage, forged in the…
In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion... and anything is possible. In this, Gaiman's first book of short stories, his imagination and supreme artistry transform a mundane world into a place of terrible wonders -- a place where an old woman can purchase the Holy Grail at a thrift store, where assassins advertise their services in the Yellow Pages under "Pest Control," and w…