Air mata punya kebijaksanaannya sendiri. Ia hadir ketika beban terlalu berat untuk diungkapkan dengan kata-kata. Ia menjadi ruang bagi luka untuk bernapas. Dan air mata adalah bahasa tubuh yang paling jujur. Sejak tragedi keji merenggut rahimnya, Tara kehilangan bukan hanya mimpinya, tapi juga air matanya. Dia mencoba segala cara untuk bertahan, tapi tak ada harapan yang tersisa setelah impi…
Di balik pergantian musim, seekor anak kucing. yang baru saja diselamatkan dari tempat sampah, mengajarkan seorang lelaki bagaimana menjadi ayah yang baik untuk bayinya sendiri. Kita juga akan bertualang ke pulau kucing, bertemu dengan sekelompok kucing liar yang mengajarkan seorang anak laki-laki untuk tidak mengganggu alam. Lalu, ada seekor kucing tua yang merencanakan perjalanan ke dunia …
Venice, 1704. Anna Maria may have no name, no fortune, no family. But she has her ambition, and her talent.
When a weather-beaten body is found on Clifton Downs, the police are quick to dismiss it as a quarrel among the unhoused community. DS George Cross knows how it feels to be overlooked. Unwilling to do the same to others, he sets out to find out what really happened to the dead man. As George learns about a life that slowly unravelled, his investigation leads him to a decades-old murder. T…
Pertemuan Syamil dengan Maryati dan Kasman di Padang Panjang secara ajaib membawa mahasiswa jurusan sejarah itu jauh dari rumah. Lewat potongan naskah berusia seratus tahun yang dicatat oleh seorang mantan tentara Belanda bernama Alex van deer Meer, Syamil menjelajah ke Sawahlunto pada tahun 1920 hingga ke Leiden pada tahun 2020. Sembari menelusuri kembali setiap jengkal sejarah bangsanya, S…
from the back cover: On the rugged Cornish coast, where the land meets the sea, lies the village of Zennor. Here, there are stories and whispers of a villager capturing the heart of a mysterious and beautiful stranger - a stranger from the sea - a mermaid! From a landscape rich with myth and magic comes this traditional folk tale, retold by master poet Charles Causley and illustrated by award-…
The heroine of Tolstoy's epic of love and self-destruction, Anna Karenina has beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son, but feels that her life is empty until she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike, and brings jealousy and bitterness in its wake. Contrasting with this is the vividly observed story of Levin, a man stri…
“We didn’t call the police right away.” Those are the electric first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing. Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything—which is why she isn’t initially concerned when her fath…