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The Rainbow Troops
Ikal is one of the ten students of the Muhamaddiyah School, the oldest and poorest school in the Indonesian tin-mining island of Belitong. Like him, his classmates are from the most downtrodden families in the region. But the school has two weapons—its teacher Bu Mus, a slight fifteen-year-old girl with burning courage and a passion for education, and Lintang, the boy genius who inspires his classmates to dream and fight their destiny. Soon the island’s underdogs become its champions. Incredibly moving and full of hope, The Rainbow Troops swept Indonesia off its feet, selling over five million copies and becoming the highest-selling book in its history. It will sweep you away too.
Rainbow Troops (Mandarin Edition)
《天虹战队小学》 Ikal is a student at the poorest village school, which is under constant threat of closure. Ikal and his friends—a group nicknamed the Rainbow Troops—face threats from every angle: skeptical government officials, greedy corporations hardly distinguishable from the colonialism they’ve replaced, deepening poverty and crumbling infrastructure, and their own low self-confidence.But the students also have hope. 《天虹战队小学》讲述了一个励志故事：在南太平洋上，有专为穷人而建的学校，条件简陋，资源匮乏，破洞比砖瓦还多。下雨天，老师要撑着香蕉叶上课，校长要卖菜为学生买课本，天才学生每天得游过鳄鱼栖息地上学，最有艺术细胞的孩子用零成本打造狂欢节演出……但他们的老师，拒绝了“前途美好”的工作，到这里教书。没有工资，靠做针线活赚取生活费。孩子们和老师一起，为了理想向命运宣战，亲身践行那句古老的格言：“那些没把你击垮的，最终只会让你更强大。”
Where the Shoreline Used to be
A rich and unique collection of short fiction, poetry, illustration and song lyrics from Australia and beyond. An encounter with a strange boy on a beach, a dog in space, a world of butterflies, a talking whale, two girls who take on the world, and a thousand silver ghosts . . . Like the pull of the tide, these stories and poems will draw you in and encourage you to explore. Funny, dramatic and poignant by turns, and featuring both established writers and exciting new talent, Where the Shoreline Used to Be is a stunning collection that will challenge and excite your imagination.
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The Night
For readers who love Bolaño, a new voice of Latin American fiction, winner of the Mario Vargas Llosa Prize. Recurring blackouts envelop Caracas in an inescapable darkness that makes nightmares come true. Real and fictional characters, most of them are writers, exchange the role of narrator in this polyphonic novel. They recount contradictory versions of the plot, a series of femicides that began with the energy crisis. The central narrator is a psychiatrist who manipulates the accounts of his friend, an author writing a book titled The Night; and his patient, an advertising executive obsessed with understanding the world through word puzzles. The author shifts between crime fiction and meta...
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Novel ketiga dari tetralogi Laskar Pelangi ini bercerita tentang petualangan Ikal dan Arai di Eropa. Setelah berhasil memperoleh beasiswa ke Prancis, Ikal dan Arai, mengalami banyak kejadian yang orang biasa sebut sebagai kejutan budaya. Banyak kebiasaan dan peradaban Eropa yang berlainan sama sekali dengan peradaban yang selama ini mereka pahami sebagai orang Indonesia,khususnya Melayu. Di dalam buku ini juga Ikal dan Arai kembali menuai karma akibat kenakalan-kenalan yang pernah mereka lakukan semasa kecil dan remaja dulu. Pembaca akan dibawa ke dalam petualangan mereka menyusuri Eropa dengan berbagai pengalaman yang mencengangkan, mencekam, membuat terbahak, sekaligus berurai air mata. Ak...
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The Last Brother
In the remote forests of Mauritius, young Raj is almost oblivious of the Second World War raging beyond his tiny exotic island. With only his mother for company while his father works as a prison guard, solitary ever since his brothers died years ago, Raj thinks only of making friends. One day, the far-away world comes to Mauritius, and Raj meets David, a Jew exiled from his home in Europe and imprisoned in the camp where Raj's father works. David becomes the friend that he has always longed for, a brother to replace those he has lost. Raj knows that he must help David to escape. As they flee through sub-tropical landscapes and devastating storms, the boys battle hunger and malaria - and forge a friendship only death can destroy. The Last Brother is a powerful, poetic novel that sheds new light on a little-explored aspect of 20th-century history.
Citizens of Tokyo
Citizens of Tokyo is the first collection in English of plays by one of Japan's most important contemporary playwrights, Oriza Hirata, whose works have been performed all over the world. The first part of Citizens of Tokyo, "At Home and Abroad," presents two plays--Toyko Notes and Kings of the Road--that are exemplary of Hirata's unique neorealist dramaturgy, which created one of the most important trends in Japanese theater since the 1990s: Quiet Theatre. The second part of the book presents two short comedies that satirize the politics of decision-making in Japan and abroad: "Loyal Rōnin: The Working Girls' Version" and "The Yalta Conference." The final part, "Robots and Androids are People Too," presents two short plays created in collaboration with Ishiguro Hiroshi and the Osaka University Robot Theatre Project. The plays are accompanied by a context-setting introduction from editor and cotranslator M. Cody Poulton.
