Teh Risa ngapain? Kok, dia ngomong sendiri, sih? Tak pernah Indy bayangkan bahwa suatu hari, ia menjadi peka seperti Teh Risa, mampu melihat dan berinteraksi dengan "mereka". Sayangnya, bukan sosok bersahabat seperti Peter dan teman-teman yang menghampirinya, melainkan sosok menyeramkan yang menjadikan Indy sebagai tempat yang 'nyaman' untuk singgah. Mulai dari pocong, genderuwo, hingga…
Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jeal…
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer and the men and women he meets in Italy with total conviction. But A…
"Pernahkah kamu merindukan rumah? Selalu membayangkan kenangan terindah bersama orang-orang tersayang. Kenangan yang memberi semangat untuk terus berjuang, demi mereka yang menunggumu pulang. Gua Jepang adalah saksi bisu mereka yang terampas kebebasannya; para romusha yang bekerja siang-malam tanpa istirahat dan makan, tahanan perang yang disiksa, serta jugun ianfu yang dipaksa memuaskan…
Stones from the River is a daring, dramatic and complex novel of life in Germany. It is set in Burgdorf, a small fictional German town, between 1915 and 1951. The protagonist is Trudi Montag, a Zwerg -- the German word for dwarf woman. As a dwarf she is set apart, the outsider whose physical "otherness" has a corollary in her refusal to be a part of Burgdorf's silent complicity during and after…
A collection of short stories featuring a cross-section of society including runaways, drifters, gold miners, counterfeiters, attorneys, and slaves from Puritan Massachusetts and revolutionary New Jersey to antebellum Louisiana.
REVOLUSI TEKNOLOGI terkesan tidak segarang revolusirevolusi fisik yang keras sebagaimana pernah menghentak sejarah. Padahal tidak demikian, kini mengingat wajah sejarah kini dan ke depan, banyak ditentukan oleh disrupsi teknologi. Buku ini mengajak pembaca menyimak perkembangan teknologi informasi yang bekerja secara algoritmik, mengapa ia begitu berpengaruh pada perubahan perilaku manusia, ter…
Profiles the Abscam sting man, Mel Weinberg, who sold the FBI on the idea of setting himself up as a business representative of a wealthy Arab sheik and who personally handled almost every contact and payoff.
The stunning first novel in Louise Erdrich's Native American series, Love Medicine tells the story of two families, the Kashpaws and the Lamartines. Written in Erdrich's uniquely poetic, powerful style, it is a multi-generational portrait of strong men and women caught in an unforgettable drama of anger, desire, and the healing power that is love medicine.
No growing pains have ever been more hilarious than those sufferes lpudly by the riotous Gilbreth clan.