Alif merasa berdiri di pucuk dunia. Bagaimana tidak? Dia telah mengelilingi separuh dunia, tulisannya tersebar di banyak media, dan diwisuda dengan nilai terbaik. Dia yakin perusahaan-perusahaan akan berlomba-lomba merekrutnya. Namun Alif lulus di saat yang salah. Akhir 90-an, krisis ekonomi mencekik Indonesia dan negara bergolak di masa reformasi. Satu per satu, surat penolakan kerja sampai…
Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide a…
Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in December that year (but dated 1818). Persuasion is linked to Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together, but also because both stories are…
In a quiet village in the Shire, young Frodo is about to receive a gift that will change his life forever. Thought lost centuries ago, it is the One Ring, an object of terrifying power once used by the Dark Lord to enslave Middle-earth. Now darkness is rising, and Frodo must travel deep into the Dark Lord’s realm, to the one place the Ring can be destroyed: Mount Doom. The journey will …
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Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid spell that transforms her into an old lady. Her only chance at breaking it lies in the ever-moving castle in the hills: the Wizard Howl's castle. …
THE PERFECT CURL-UP READ FOR CAT LOVERS'Bewitching... as self-possessed and comforting as - well, a cat' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'A book about kindness and love, and how the smallest things can provide happiness' STYLIST___It's not the journey that counts