Di balik setiap wajah yang kita jumpa, ada kisah yang nyaris tak pernah terucap. Melalui Kios Pasar Sore dan Cerita Orang-orang Biasa Lainnya, Reda Gaudiamo merangkai tiga puluh cerita pendek yang mengingatkan kita, bahwa hidup tidak pernah benar benar biasa saja. Di tangan Reda, cerita orang-orang biasa berubah menjadi potret kehidupan yang hangat lucu, dan terkadang menyayat serta membuat kit…
Nearly 5 years and over 200 recorded conversations with great narrators and luminaries from the region and the world, combined with almost 3 years spent at a widely-recognized nexus of innovation, academic excellence, and interdisciplinary collaboration, Stanford University, led to a compelling conclusion: Southeast Asia has what it takes to be part of global consciousness—to have the capacit…
In 1981, a new company, Hasta Mitra, founded by three men just released from over a decade in prison, published a novel written in a prison camp by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. The novel was This Earth of Mankind. It told the story of the early gestation of the Indonesian national awakening. The dictatorship eventually banned it after several months of tactical struggle by the three men, Pramoedya hi…