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Lovely Holiday
Kali ini, berbagai pikiran positif tentang kebetulan yang mengerikan itu mulai tak masuk akal. Oke, kebetulan adalah jika mereka duduk berdekatan di ruang boarding, kemudian ternyata bersebelahan di pesawat, lalu berefek pada duduk berdekatan di MRT. Tapi kali ini sudah kelewatan! Bagaimana mungkin Aprilio juga menginap di hostel yang sama dengan Raissa?! *** Sebelum bersiap untuk tidur, Elisa membuka smartphone miliknya dan meng-update statusnya di sebuah situs jejaring sosial bahwa sekarang ia sedang berada di Hong Kong. Dalam hitungan menit, sudah banyak temannya yang mengomentari status yang dibuatnya. Ngapain kamu di sana? Hunting cowok baru? Atau belanja? *** "Mengapa kita tidak mencobanya. Querida? Kau dan aku.....berpacaran? menikmati liburan ini tanpa berpikir apa yang akan terjadi esok hari?" "Kau lupa kalau seharusnya aku membunuhmu, Senor Contreras." *** Semua bermula dari kesempatan berlibur yang mereka miliki. Dalam satu langkah, Singapura, Hong Kong, dan Yunani dapat dijelajahi. Namun, siapa yang menduga kalau dalam setiap perjalanan akan selalu ada yang yang mengiringi? Entah itu petaka, atau entah itu cinta....
Seoul Sonata
Ray Siwon, penyanyi idola Korea. Perfection, tampan, populer, dan menjadi impian banyak orang. Memiliki semua hal yang sempurna dalam hidupnya. Kecuali satu hal, cinta. Astrid Kim, seorang gadis yang hidup di antara kehidupan dan kematian. Kemampuan yang tak dimiliki kebanyakan orang, membuatnya mendapat perlindungan ekstra. Cinta--bahkan hidup yang telah diatur sebelumnya membuat dirinya terbelenggu hingga menjauhkannya dari keinginan bebasnya, impian. Dua orang dengan kehidupan berbeda, namun memiliki melodi hidup yang sama-sama hampa, dan tanpa sengaja, terikat dalam satu takdir dan rahasia yang berbahaya.
Self Portrait in Green
'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.
Not Mine
"""Jantungku berdebar kencang tatkala menatap sepasang mata jernih pria itu. Entah siapa yang harus kusalahkan ketika hati ini memilih adik kandung Papa sebagai pria pertama yang mengguncang pertahananku. Aku berusaha mengenyahkan perasaan ini. Namun, aku malah semakin terjerumus. Hanya satu kalimat yang ingin kuutarakan padanya: “Aku cinta Om Rafael.”"""
The Mosquito Bite Author
Originally published in 2011, The Mosquito Bite Author is the seventh novel by the acclaimed Turkish author Barış Bıçakçı. It follows the daily life of an aspiring novelist, Cemil, in the months after he submits his manuscript to a publisher in Istanbul. Living in an unremarkable apartment complex in the outskirts of Ankara, Cemil spends his days going on walks, cooking for his wife, repairing leaks in his neighbor’s bathroom, and having elaborate imaginary conversations in his head with his potential editor about the meaning of life and art. Uncertain of whether his manuscript will be accepted, Cemil wavers between thoughtful meditations on the origin of the universe and the trajectory of political literature in Turkey, panic over his own worth as a writer, and incredulity toward the objects that make up his quiet world in the Ankara suburbs.
Mud Sweeter than Honey
"[An] incredibly moving collection of oral histories . . . important enough to be added to the history curriculum" Telegraph "A moving evocation of the 'everyday terror' systematically perpetrated over 41 years of Albanian communism . . . An illuminating if harrowing insight into life in a totalitarian state." Clarissa de Waal, author of ALBANIA: PORTRAIT OF A COUNTRY IN TRANSITION "Albania, enigmatic, mysterious Albania, was always the untold story of the Cold War, the 1989 revolutions and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Mud Sweeter Than Honey goes a very long way indeed towards putting that right" New European After breaking ties with Yugoslavia, the USSR and then China, Enver Hoxha believed ...
Killing the Water
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The Bride of Amman
The Bride of Amman, a huge and controversial bestseller when first published in Arabic, takes a sharp-eyed look at the intersecting lives of four women and one gay man in Jordan's historic capital, Amman-a city deeply imbued with its nation's traditions and taboos. When Rana finds herself not only falling for a man of the wrong faith, but also getting into trouble with him, where can they go to escape? Can Hayat's secret liaisons really suppress the memories of her abusive father? When Ali is pressured by society's homophobia into a fake heterosexual marriage, how long can he maintain the illusion? And when spinsterhood and divorce spell social catastrophe, is living a lie truly the best option for Leila? What must she do to avoid reaching her 'expiry date' at the age thirty like her sister Salma, Jordan's secret blogger and a self-confessed spinster with a plot up her sleeve to defy her city's prejudices? These five young lives come together and come apart in ways that are distinctly modern yet as unique and timeless as Amman itself.
About Trees
About Trees considers our relationship with language, landscape, perception, and memory in the Anthropocene. The book includes texts and artwork by a stellar line up of contributors including Jorge Luis Borges, Andrea Bowers, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ada Lovelace and dozens of others. Holten was artist in residence at Buro BDP. While working on the book she created an alphabet and used it to make a new typeface called Trees. She also made a series of limited edition offset prints based on her Tree Drawings.
The Infatuations
The Infatuations is a metaphysical murder mystery and a stunningly original literary achievement by Javier Marías, the internationally acclaimed author of A Heart So White and Your Face Tomorrow. Every day, María Dolz stops for breakfast at the same café. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there, and she feels obscurely bereft. It is only later, when she comes across a newspaper photograph of the man, lying stabbed in the street, his shirt half off, that she discovers who the couple are. Some time afterwards, when the woman returns to the café with her children, who are then collected by a different man, and Maria app...
