Erin, seorang perempuan yatim piatu pekerja kantoran yang tinggal bersama adiknya, usai ditinggal pergi Kakek yang menjaga mereka sedari kecil untuk selama-lamanya. Demi memenuhi kebutuhan hidup dan menabung untuk biaya kuliah adik, Erin melupakan hasratnya untuk keluar, dengan menyibukkan diri di kantor bersama sahabainya, sembari berhadapan dengan Pak Bos yang kerap memarahi dan menegurnya. …
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky p…
Bagi saya, menulis puisi itu ekspresi, refleksi, dan rekreasi. Saya mempunyai maksud, perasaan, dan gagasan. Saya menangkap dan menyerap rangsangan - liar, penurut, kepala batu - dari luar dan bereaksi atasnya. Saya kemudian berselancar di alam bebas laksana orang yang sedang piknik menikmati segala hal yang indah-indah, baik yang diselimuti misteri maupun yang telanjang bulat. Saya berada d…
It was a mistake to trust him. Shivering and bruised, a teen wakes up on the side of a dirt road with no memory of how she got there―or who she is. A passing officer takes her to the police station, and not long after, a frantic man arrives. He's been searching for her for hours. He has her school ID, her birth certificate, and even family photos. He is her father. Her name is Mary. Or …
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club. When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. As the bodies begin to pile up, can our u…
After ten bloody years of fighting in the Trojan War, the intrepid Odysseus heads homeward, little imagining that it will take another ten years of desperate struggle to reclaim his kingdom and family. The wily hero circumvents the wrath of the sea god Poseidon and triumphs over an incredible array of obstacles, assisted by his patron goddess Athene and his own prodigious guile. From a literal …
At the CIA, he used twenty-two names. When he left the CIA, he went back to his birth name. He went back to being a normal American. Back to being a guy who trusts authorities. Back to being a guy who doesn't need to get involved. Then, Jake Beamer called. And he took on the twenty-fourth name.
Mitch Albom creates a magical world through his love of music in this remarkable new novel about the power of talent to change our lives This is the epic story of Frankie Presto—the greatest guitar player who ever lived—and the six lives he changed with his six magical blue strings Frankie, born in a burning church, abandoned as an infant, and raised by a music teacher in a small Span…
On a hot summer’s day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko’s teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has travelled to Tokyo in search of breast enhancement surgery. She's accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently stopped speaking, finding herself unable to deal with her own …
The demands of other people do not dissolve; they only multiply. More and more complex, more difficult. Which is another way, she thinks, of saying: more life, more and more life.