Awal Pendakian adalah sebuah cerita menarik yang ditulis dalam bahasa yang bersahaja. Pengarangnya sudah tidak asing lagi bagi pembaca sastra Indonesia dewasa ini. Dalam novelnya yang terbaru ini dia menceritakan kehidupan seorang tokoh di tengah-tengah lingkungan yang penuh dengan ketidak beresan. Danial, tokoh cerita ini, menjadi seorangyang mudah tersinggung karena kenyataan dan tindak ta…
Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle,…
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted…
gustad N oble is a hard-working bank clerk and devoted family man who gradually sees his modest life unravelling. First his young daughter falls mysteriously ill, and then his promising son defies Gustad's educational ambitions for him. One day he receives a letter from an old friend, asking him to help in what at first seems like a heroic mission. however, Gustad soon finds himself unwittingly…