Ibunda

“Marilah kita mengangkat suara untuk memujikan wanita, Ibunda, sumber seluruh penaklukan kehidupan tak habis-habisnya!…Marilah bernyanyi untuk memujikan wanita, Ibunda, satu-satunya kekuatan terdahulu di mana kematian menunduk merendahkan kapalanya!…” (Gorky, Hikayat dari Italia) IBUNDA, merupakan sosok perempuan yang hidup di masa Revolusi Demokratik berlangsung di Rusia, sekitar aw…

Perempuan Patah Hati yang Kembali Menemukan Cinta Melalui Mimpi

Mimpi itu memberitahunya bahwa ia akan memperoleh seorang kekasih. Dalam mimpinya, si kekasih tinggal di kota kecil bernama Pangandaran. Setiap sore, lelaki yang akan menjadi kekasihnya sering berlari di sepanjang pantai ditemani seekor anjing kampung. Ia bisa melihat dadanya yang telanjang, gelap dan basah oleh keringat, berkilauan memantulkan cahaya matahari. Setiap kali ia terbangun dari mim…

My Name is Mata Hari

My Name is Mata Hari tells the story of the infamous dancer and courtesan who began as Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, a young Dutch woman who married the elder Rudolph MacLeod, a military officer, and traveled with him to the Dutch East Indies. Claiming her mother's Javanese ancestry, she changed her name to Mata Hari, Malay for 'eye of the day'

Potion and Paper Cranes

Sulis is a young woman who sells potions in Surabaya�s harbor district. In her basket she carries sweet rice and ginger potion, betel leaf potion, and tamarind leaf refreshing potion. Her tonics remedy everything from obesity to weakening virility. The route is long and the days are hot. She meets Sujono, a coolie with dreams of becoming a freedom fighter. They marry and have a son, Joko, tha…

Hobson's Island

Hobson's Island (so called because Mr. Hobson bought it, or did Mr. Hobson buy it because it was so called?) enjoyed decades of isolation in the Atlantic Ocean. For years, the caretakers lived there peacefully, with only a cow for company and an empty house to care for. But all is suddenly disrupted when a wave of unusual visitors arrive: a deposed African king fleeing a revolution, a Hobson de…

Lenka

'Pada sebuah acara penggalangan dana, seorang perempuan muda bergaun biru wisnu jatuh dari lantai lima. Namanya Magdalena, biasa dipanggil Lenka mengikuti kebiasaan orang Eropa Timur (neneknya orang Magyar, Hungaria), mahasiswa dan model. Bunuh diri, kecelakaan, atau sengaja didorong oleh seseorang?'

Edward dan Tuhan

Edward mendekati Alice dengan tujuan tunggal, menikmati tubuh ranum gadis itu. Tetapi inilah yang justru ditanyakan Alice: 'Percayakah kau kepada Tuhan?' Celakanya, Tuhan yang abstrak di mata Alice menjadi sosok yang sangat kongkrit, Tuhan Yang Melarang Perzinahan. Siasat akal bulus Edward bekerja, dan kota kecil di Chekoslowakia pada masa rezim komunis jadi heboh karenanya.

Love

In life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who would do almost anything to gain his favor. In death his hold on them may be even stronger. Wife, daughter, granddaughter, employee, mistress: As Morrison�s protagonists stake their furious claim on Cosey�s memory and estate, using everything from intrigue to outright violence, she creates a work that is shrewd, funny, erotic, an…

Million Dollar Baby

This hard-hitting collection of powerful and moving tales based on the experiences of the late, great fight manager and cut man Jerry Boyd, who wrote under the pen name F.X. Toole, is the basis for the Oscar-winning motion picture starring Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman. Breathing life into vivid, compelling characters who radiate the fierce intensity of the worlds they inhabit, Million Dollar…

Frank Sinatra Kena Selesma

Gay Talese is the father of American New Journalism, who transformed traditional reportage with his vivid scene-setting, sharp observation and rich storytelling. His 1966 piece for Esquire, one of the most celebrated magazine articles ever published, describes a morose Frank Sinatra silently nursing a glass of bourbon, struck down with a cold and unable to sing, like 'Picasso without paint, Fer…

Telling Tales

Edisi

1st Picador pbk. ed.

ISBN/ISSN

312424043

Deskripsi Fisik

320

Judul Seri

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Masquerade and Other Stories

'Walser's shorter prose work defy classificaton because of their essentially peripatetic nature. To an even greater degree than Kafka, Walser practised and vindicated the freedom to improvise, at the clearly recognized risk of remaining as classless in literature as he chose to be in society' -Michael Hamburger

The Master Go

It centers on a single game of Go, the ultimate contest for supremacy between hitherto invicible Master of Go and his younger, more modern challanger

The White Album

First published in 1979, 'The White Album 'is a mosaic' 'of the late sixties and seventies. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, the dark journeys and impulses of the Manson family, a Black Panther Party press conference, the story of John Paul Getty's museum, the romance of water in an arid landscape, and the swirl and confusion of the sixties. With commanding sureness…

I Am Charlotte Simmons

Our story unfolds at fictional Dupont University: those Olympian halls of scholarship housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition . . . Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont, se…

The Virginian

Owen Wister's powerful story of the tall, silent stranger who rides into the incivilized West and defeats the forces of evil has become and enduring part of American mythology, continuing to b echoed in novels, in movies, and on television

Cerita Calon Arang

Cerita Calon Arang bertutur tentang kehidupan seorang perempuan tua yang jahat. Pemilik teluh hitam dan pengisap darah manusia. Ia pongah. Semua-mua lawan `politik`nya dibabatnya. yang mengkritik dihabisinya. Ia merampas, dan menyakiti. Ia punya banyak ilmu ajaib untuk membunuh orang...murid-muridnya dipaksa berkeramas, berkeramas dengan darah manusia. kalau mereka sedang berpesta takubahnya de…

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

After teaching literature at three universities in Tehran (and being expelled or resigning in despair from each) Azar Nafisi picked seven of her best students and invited them to come to her home every week to discuss books. She and her students, all women, began to think of these classes as an escape from the reality of Iran's totalitarian theocracy; but the picture her book paints is of an es…

Lord Jim

'The sharp hull driving on its seemed to rise a few inchies in succession through its whole length, as though it had become pliable, and settled down again rigidly to its work of cleaving the smooth surface of the sea. It's quavering stopped, and yhe faint noise of thunder ceased all at once, as though the ship had steamed across the narrow belt of vibrating water and of humming air.'