"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.
“Nama kau Nurmas, itu nama yang indah sekali. Nur itu cahaya, mas atau emas itu logam mulia yang berharga. Aku harap, suatu saat cahaya dan kemuliaan kau akan menyatu, berkilauan." *** Buku ini tentang Nurmas, si anak cahaya yang memiliki petualangan masa kecil yang penuh keceriaan dan menakjubkan. Apa yang sebenarnya dilakukan oleh Nurmas hingga penduduk seluruh kampung selalu menginga…
In Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness Alexandra Fuller returns to Africa and to her unforgettable family. At the heart of this family, and central to the lifeblood of her latest story, is Fuller’s iconically coura
Overview: It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war-and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator …