Does ASEAN matter? a view from within

Written by the highly regarded diplomat Marty Natalegawa, former ambassador and foreign minister of Indonesia, this book offers a unique insider-perspective on the present and future relevance of ASEAN. It is about ASEAN's quest for security and prosperity in a region marked by complex dynamics of power. Namely, the interplay of relations and interests among countries--large and small--which pr…

A History of Southeast Asia

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Breasts and eggs

Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting emotional depth, Kawakami is today one of Japan’s most important and best-selling writers. She exploded onto the cultural scene first as a musician, then as a poet and popular blogger, and is now an award-winning novelist. Breasts and Eggs paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan a…

The bookstore of illusion

Di antara rak-rak buku yang berdebu, tersembunyi rahasia yang tidak seharusnya ditemukan . Ketika Yeon-seo kehilangan harapan untuk menjadi penulis, dia menemukan sebuah toko buku asing. Toko yang tanpa alamat maupun papan nama. Hanya deretan buku yang seakan memanggilnya masuk. Awalnya dia hanya ingin mengistirahatkan diri di dalam toko itu. Namun ketika pemilik toko mengajaknya bergabung u…

Breasts and eggs

On a hot summer’s day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko’s teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has travelled to Tokyo in search of breast enhancement surgery. She's accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently stopped speaking, finding herself unable to deal with her own …

Southeast Asia : a very short introduction

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Sukarno : Paradoks Revolusi Indonesia

Empat puluh tahun sejak Sukarno meninggal, nama serta wajahnya tidak pernah benar-benar lumat terkubur. Kampanye puluhan tahun Orde Baru untuk membenamkannya justru hanya memperkuat kenangan orang akan kebesarannya. Sukarno tak pernah berhenti menjadi ikon revolusi nasional Indonesia yang paling menonjol—mungkin seperti Che Guevara bagi Kuba. Di banyak rumah, foto-fotonya, kendati dalam ke…

Leaving No Footprint : Stories from Asia

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9780194791410

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72p; ill; bw; pbk

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Oxford Bookworms 3

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Oxford Bookworms 6: Gazing at Stars : Stories from Asia

from the back cover: Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in English from around the world. These stories from China, Malaysia, Singapore, and India, are by writers Liu Hong, Attia Hosain, Preeta Samarasan, Hwee Hwee Tan, Ridjal Noor, Shashi Deshpande, Ovidia Yu, Nora Adam, Nirupama Subramanian, and Catherine Lim. [word count 28,539]

Before we forget kindness

In the fifth book in the sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests: - The father who could not allow his daughter to get married - A woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her loved one - A boy who wants to show his smile to his divorced parents …