Throughout her career, Margaret Atwood has played with different literary genres in her novels--historical fiction (Alias Grace), pulp fiction (The Blind Assassin), the comedy of manners (The Robber Bride)--but no foray into genre fiction has been as successful as her turn to speculative fiction in The Handmaid's Tale. Published in 1985, it echoes Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, but…
Setiap beberapa puluh tahun, muncul sebuah buku yang mengubah hidup para pembacanya selamanya. Novel Paulo Coelho yang memikat ini telah memberikan inspirasi bagi jutaan orang di seluruh dunia. Kisah yang sangat sederhana, namun menyimpan kebijaksanaan penuh makna, tentang anak gembala bernama Santiago yang berkelana dari rumahnya di Spanyol ke padang pasir Mesir untuk mencari harta karun terpe…
Aku memiliki satu kesempatan terakkhir untuk menentukan apa jadinya diriku. Aku bisa melangkah memasuki gang itu, membela Hassan dan menerima apa pun yang mungkin menimpaku. Atau, aku bisa melarikan diri. Akhirnya, aku melarikan diri. Amir telah mengkhianati Hassan, satu-satunya sahabatnya, saudaranya. Rasa bersalah menghantuinya. Menyingkirkan Hassan dari kehidupannya adalah pilihan tersul…
"Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once, too, back when she was eighteen." In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina. B…
Reginald Rose's landmark American drama was a critically acclaimed teleplay, and went on to become a cinematic masterpiece in 1957 starring Henry Fonda, for which Rose wrote the adaptation. A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic belief in the U.S. legal syst…
Something is fishy in Mermaid Court! First a little boy mysteriously vanishes, then a treasured statue of a mermaid disappears. An actor tells outrageous lies...a dog lover gets an unexplained bite...and lights flicker in the windows of the haunted Mermaid Inn! The Three Investigators are eager to find the lost child, but the other mysteries keep getting in the way. The super sleuths face…