Zakaria merupakan seorang haji kaya/ Ia memiliki anak tunggal bernama Suria. Sejak kecil Suria hidup cukup dan dimanja ayahnya. Dengan didikan itu, ia justru menjadi anak yang pongah dan sombong. Haji Hasbullah merupakan teman akrab Haji Zakaria. Ia memiliki anak gadis benama Zubaedah. Atas permintaan Zakaria, Zubaedah dinikahkan dengan Suria. Pernikahan tanpa cinta itu justru membawa mala pet…
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…