During the Japanese-Chinese War, specifically in Shanghai at the end of 1931, I was trapped for three days behind a street called North Sichuan Road, where the fighting first erupted. From North Sichuan Road, the Japanese fired toward Po Shan Road, and Chinese soldiers fired back from the opposite direction. Among the conflict, precisely in the village of Wang Pan Cho, I was stuck with my libra…
“Hard to put down, harder to forget.” — Stephen King White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American—in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from R.F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel. Authors J…
Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War. It is no…
An epic, emotional, breathtaking story of love and loss set amid the Syrian revolution. Burning with the fires of hope and possibility, AS LONG AS THE LEMON TREES GROW will sweep you up and never let you go. This brand new paperback edition contains exclusive bonus short story Joy. Set in the world of Lemon Trees, it features never-before-seen moments between Salama and Kenan. A year ago,…
A dystopian masterpiece - the powerful and prophetic novel that defined the twentieth century. The year is 1984. War and revolution have created an unrecognizable world. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, led by Big Brother. Mass surveillance is total and The Thought Police ensure no individual thinking is allowed. Winston Smith works at The Ministry of Truth…
This novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for identity and success. It's a powerful story about resilience and compassion' BARACK OBAMA. Yeongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant …
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution f…
In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree - a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been torn down by a storm. But his loss is not the only part of the family's past they can't put behind them. Not everybody's forgotten the court case that put Joe's partner in jail, or the cracked engine heads his factory produced which caused it and dropped twenty-one pilo…
Rumah bambu adalah kumpulan cerpen Romo Mangun yang pertama dan terakhir kali diterbitkan. Sebagian besar cerpen-cerpen itu ditemukan di rumah penulis, di Kuwera Yogyakarta, dalam keadaan penuh koreksi dan sulit dibaca. Dari duapuluh cerpen yang ada dalam buku ini, hanya tiga yang pernah dipublikasikan. Hampir semua tema cerita dalam buku ini adalah peristiwa-peristiwa yang kelihatan sederhana,…
Rumah boneka ditulis oleh Ibsen pada tahun 1879, dan merupakan sukses pertamanya di dunia internasional. Rumah boneka diilhami oleh kisah nyata yang dialami oleh teman wanitanya, yang terpaksa meminjam uang untuk upaya penyembuhan suaminya. Dalam Rumah boneka kisah ini berakhir tidak dengan kebahagiaan meskipun masalah pinjaman uang telah terselesaikan, namun Nora akhirnya menyadari bahwa di ru…
Perfume adalah kisah yang sungguh memikat tentang pembunuhan dan kegeniusan yang menyimpang. Novel bestseller yang eksotis dan sensasional ini membangkitkan rasa penasaran yang menakutkan tentang apa yang terjadi ketika bakat, hasrat, dan kecenderungan seseorang akan bau dan aroma mengubahnya menjadi seorang pembunuh. Membunuh demi parfum terbaik.
“Teaches us about dreams, destiny, and the reason we are all here.”—Oprah Daily, “Best Self-Help Books of a Generation” A stunning 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new foreword by Paulo Coelho and charming interior illustrations–Discover the true power of trusting your intuition, honoring your instincts, and tapping into your inn…
Cerpen ini menceritakan tentang kisah tragis kematian Kakek penjaga surau di kota kelahiran tokoh utama itu. Dia - si Kakek, meninggal dengan menggorok lehernya sendiri setelah mendapat cerita dari Ajo Sidi-si Pembual, tentang Haji Soleh yang masuk neraka walaupun pekerjaan sehari-harinya beribadah di Masjid, persis yang dilakukan oleh si Kakek.
All Jin Wang wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds that he's the only Chinese American student at his school. Jocks and bullies pick on him constantly, and he has hardly any friends. Then, to make matters worse, he falls in love with an all-American girl... Born to rule over all the monkeys in the world, the story of the Monkey King is one of the …
A riveting, poetic, and fearless portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice by the acclaimed author of The Vegetarian. In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed. The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, den…
A gripping literary thriller spanning multiple time periods, *The Twelve* is an epic tale of sacrifice and survival. In the present day, three strangers must navigate the chaos unleashed by a U.S. government experiment gone terribly wrong, their fates becoming intertwined. A hundred years later, Amy, Peter, Alicia, and the other survivors from *The Passage* are on a mission to track down the or…
Olivia spends months each year planning a luxurious vacation to make up for the time she lost with her family, and this summer she’s arranged a dream trip on a Mediterranean yacht, hoping it will be the most memorable of all. Her yearly lavish gesture expresses her love for her family and her regret over missing important moments during her children’s younger years. However, her younger dau…
Dokter bilang, hidupmu paling lama dua tahun lagi kalau situasimu masih sama: morbidly obese. Kamu terhenyak, kemudian bertanya-tanya sendiri apakah hidupmu selama ini layak dipertahankan. Kamu terlalu letih. Kamu sudah nyaris putus asa ketika sesuatu meletik. Bagaimana jika itu mungkin dan kamu bisa menjalani hidup sebagaimana orang lain: jalan ke penatu, nongkrong di kafe seusai nonton film, …
“Jam tiga dini hari, sweter, dan jalanan yang gelap dan sepi .... Ada peta, petunjuk; dan Jakarta menjadi tempat yang belum pernah kami datangi sebelumnya.” Mawar, hyacinth biru, dan melati. Dibawa balon perak, tiga bunga ini diantar setiap hari ke balkon apartemen Emina. Tanpa pengirim, tanpa pesan; hanya kemungkinan adanya stalker mencurigakan yang tahu alamat tempat tinggalnya. Ket…
Through this novel, Pramoedya aims to overturn the conventional perspective on the narrative of the Republic's revolutionary history, which often positions the military and its generals as the heroic figures. The anonymous individuals, who lack access to the official history recorded by the palace, are marginalized and forgotten. Pramoedya endeavors to place these anonymous characters in their …
This drama tells the story of a place called Mangir. Unlike other regions in the Mataram kingdom, Mangir is a Perdikan, or tax-exempt area, during the reign of Panembahan Senopati. This situation irritates Panembahan Senopati, prompting him to devise a plan to conquer Mangir.
The short novel —written during the author's time in prison—compels us to remember that freedom cannot be taken for granted or expected to arrive easily. The struggle for freedom carries the legitimate authority of those who endure, encompassing as much truth as we are capable of expressing through our writing.
The story of **Calon Arang** revolves around an evil old woman who practices black magic and feeds on human blood. Arrogant and ruthless, she eliminates her political adversaries and silences her critics. She revels in the suffering of others, committing acts of murder, theft, and violence. Possessing various magical abilities, she even forces her disciples to bathe in human blood. During her c…
Midah initially came from a respectable and religious family. However, due to injustices at home, she chose to escape, finding herself lost in the harsh streets of Jakarta in the 1950s. She emerged as someone who refused to surrender to her circumstances, even though she was just a singer known as “the sweet one with golden teeth,” performing as part of a street group that traveled from one…
Ever since it was first published in 1951, this novel has been the coming-of-age story against which all others are judged. Read and cherished by generations, the story of Holden Caulfield is truly one of America's literary treasures.
The Arden Shakespeare has long been acclaimed as the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's work. Now being totally reedited for the third time, Arden editions offer the very best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume provides a clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards; detailed textual notes and commentary on the same page of the text; full contextual, illustrat…