Marno took out a cigarette, then stood and went to the window. Lowering his gaze he looked at the jungle of skyscrapers. They appeared to be asleep. The pale moonlight made them look cold and hard. A feeling of emptiness and loneliness surged within him. from the short story “A Thousand Fireflies in Manhattan” ------- Born in Ngawi, East Java, in 1932, Umar Kayam obtained his masters…
Penulis-penulis Terpilih: Abrar Yusra Agus Vrisaba Ahmad Tohari B.M. Syamsuddin Edi Haryono Harris Effendi Thahar Hudri Hamdi Jujur Prananto Putu Wijaya Ratna Indraswari Ibrahim Santyarini Umar Kayam Yanusa Nugroho ...dunia yang dimasuki pengarang dikenalnya sampai teras garis kecil, sehingga yang tampil di dalam cerita atau melatarbelakanginya, cukup meyakinkan... (Subagio Sast…
In my mind rose a misty picture of a little girl in a floral dress. As for her face: nothing. I could only hope that she had been pretty. I sat overcome. What a procession of developments in one day! Only that morning I had left Madiun; at midday I was wobbling on a buggy past an ocean of rice fields; tonight, suddenly, I had been renamed by my parents and handed a wife. Thus begins Sastroda…