Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years ago? What was it like there? And most importantly, who is her father, and why did her mom leave him behind? But Pri's mom avoids these questions--the topic of India is permanently closed. For Pri, her mother's homeland can only exist in her imagination. That is, until she find a mysterious pashm…
Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in December that year (but dated 1818). Persuasion is linked to Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together, but also because both stories are…
Di sebuah pagi yang murung, Nadira Suwandi menemukan ibunya tewas bunuh diri di lantai rumahnya. Kematian sang ibu, Kemala Yunus - yang dikenal sangat ekspresif, berpikiran bebas, dan selalu bertarung mencari diri - sungguh mengejutkan. Tewasnya Kemala kemudian mempengaruhi kehidupan Nadira sebagai seorang anak ("Melukis Langit"); seorang wartawan ("Tasbih"); seorang kekasih ("Ciuman Terpanj…