Nama Pramoedya Ananta Toer yang besar tentulah terbentuk karena karya-karyanya yang juga diakui oleh dunia. Roman “Bumi manusia” adalah bagian pertama dari Tetralogi Buru. Pram menulisnya di kamp kerjapaksa tanpa proses hukum pengadilan di pulau Buru. Roman ini bersetting di Surabaya pada awal abad 19, saat dimana Hindia Belanda berdiri. Tokoh utamanya adalah Minke, seorang keturunan pri…
Kartini (diam-diam) sudah melakukan pemberontakan atas nilai-nilai kebudayaan Jawa yang feodalistik. Tentu saja ini simpulan yang mengagetkan. Bukan apa-apa, masalahnya pemahaman kita terhadap Kartini memang amat terbatas, jika tidak disebut dangkal, atau bahkan reduksionistik: Kartini adalah pelopor emansipasi perempuan. Titik. Simak pula ritus yang diadakan tiap 21 April sebagai selebrasi kel…
Class bully Darren is challenged to a face-off with Olly the bull. Darren has no idea that Olly's a gentle giant. And the boy who set the challenge has no idea it's not Olly in the field!
A boy who wants to fly swaps places with a bird who wants to read a book, but who has the better end of the bargain? A gorgeous and thought-provoking exploration of the power of books, specially designed with a reading age of 6 to help severely struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 8+
Chris, Lisa and Tom have their own castle. It's actually an old pill box from World War Two that makes the best hide-out ever. The only problem is that it's on Old Rafferty's land and he dislikes trespassers, especially if they're children.
In Child of All Nations, the reader is immediately swept up by a story that is profoundly feminist, devastatingly anticolonialist—and full of heartbreak, suspense, love, and fury. Pramoedya immerses the reader in a world that is astonishing in its vividness: the cultural whirlpool that was the Dutch East Indies of the 1890s. A story of awakening, it follows Minke, the main character of This E…