ka·tar·sis: n (Psi) cara pengobatan orang yg berpenyakit saraf dng membiarkannya menuangkan segala isi hatinya dng bebas; (Sas) kelegaan emosional setelah mengalami ketegangan dan pertikaian batin akibat suatu lakuan dramatis. Seluruh keluarganya tewas dalam pembunuhan sadis, sementara Tara ditemukan dalam kondisi mengenaskan di kotak perkakas kayu. Dengan bantuan Alfons, psikiaternya, polisi…
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civiliza…
Les Miserables Volume One by Victor Hugo. With an Introduction and Notes by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the…
Untuk peri kecilku, Ann, dari kecil, aku susah sekali bicara banyak. Namun, sejak bertemu denganmu, aku ingin bisa banyak berkata-kata, khususnya saat bersamamu. Aku tahu, aku jenis orang yang sedikit rumit. Namun, percayalah Ann, aku berusaha sekeras mungkin untuk bisa membuatmu memahamiku, walaupun aku tahu itu sulit. Berat sekali rasanya harus meninggalkanmu ke Berlin. Harus memb…
Teh Risa ngapain? Kok, dia ngomong sendiri, sih? Tak pernah Indy bayangkan bahwa suatu hari, ia menjadi peka seperti Teh Risa, mampu melihat dan berinteraksi dengan "mereka". Sayangnya, bukan sosok bersahabat seperti Peter dan teman-teman yang menghampirinya, melainkan sosok menyeramkan yang menjadikan Indy sebagai tempat yang 'nyaman' untuk singgah. Mulai dari pocong, genderuwo, hingga…
Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jeal…
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer and the men and women he meets in Italy with total conviction. But A…
"Pernahkah kamu merindukan rumah? Selalu membayangkan kenangan terindah bersama orang-orang tersayang. Kenangan yang memberi semangat untuk terus berjuang, demi mereka yang menunggumu pulang. Gua Jepang adalah saksi bisu mereka yang terampas kebebasannya; para romusha yang bekerja siang-malam tanpa istirahat dan makan, tahanan perang yang disiksa, serta jugun ianfu yang dipaksa memuaskan…
Stones from the River is a daring, dramatic and complex novel of life in Germany. It is set in Burgdorf, a small fictional German town, between 1915 and 1951. The protagonist is Trudi Montag, a Zwerg -- the German word for dwarf woman. As a dwarf she is set apart, the outsider whose physical "otherness" has a corollary in her refusal to be a part of Burgdorf's silent complicity during and after…
A collection of short stories featuring a cross-section of society including runaways, drifters, gold miners, counterfeiters, attorneys, and slaves from Puritan Massachusetts and revolutionary New Jersey to antebellum Louisiana.