Arriving in America alone after her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian Leyb receives word that her daughter Sophie might still be alive and embarks on a risky odyssey that takes her from New York's Lower East Side through Chicago, Seattle, the Yukon, and Alaska, to Siberia to find the missing girl.
“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.” So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recen…
Buku “Muhammad Rasul Allah Sepanjang Zaman” adalah buku yang ditulis oleh Karen Armstrong. Karen Armstrong adalah penulis beberapa buku keagamaan terkenal, antara lain Sejarah Tuhan, Berperang demi Tuhan, Masa Depan Tuhan, dan Compassion. Karya-karyanya telah diterjemahkan ke dalam empat puluh bahasa di seluruh dunia. Dia juga merancang acara-acara televisi bertema keagamaan. Sejak 11 Septe…
Berbicara tentang Perang Dunia II pasti tidak jauh dari pembahasan soal Hitler dan Jerman, aliansi Sekutu dan Poros, dan juga bom atom yang dijatuhkan Amerika Serikat ke dua kota besar di Jepang. B Buku ini secara garis besar membicarakan sejarah umum yang terjadi selama Perang Dunia II di berbagai belahan dunia. Terkhususnya yang dalam kurun waktu enam tahun selama berlangsungnya Perang Dun…
Semua hal mengenai Korea Selatan begitu digandrungi oleh masyarakat Indonesia belakangan ini. Berawal dari industri hiburan seperti K-Pop dan drama, kini kecintaan publik tak terbatas pada itu saja, melainkan juga merambah ke berbagai aspek lainnya, mulai dari budaya, bahasa, tak terkecuali kuliner. Aneka makanan Korea Selatan memang terlihat sangat menggiurkan. Keberadaannya pun kini sudah …
Pada 2 Agustus 2008, mata Elon Musk menatap layar monitor dengan perasaan harap-harap cemas. Hari itu adalah kali ketiga SpaceX mencoba meluncurkan Falcon 1 menuju orbit. Elon kembali pada ingatan masa kecilnya. Sejak masih bocah, ia bercita-cita ingin membangun sesuatu yang bermanfaat bagi umat manusia. Sudah sejak lama ia meyakini bahwa suatu saat nanti, bumi kehancuran, entah karena yang …
Les Miserables Volume One by Victor Hugo. With an Introduction and Notes by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the…
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…
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…