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Winter Dreams and the Invicible Summer (Edisi Bahasa Inggris)
On the day George W. Bush took his oath as the 43rd President of the United States, I began my life as an illegal alien. It was a conscious decision and it felt a lot like I was crossing a line, invisible to others, though unmistakable in the eyes of the law. But this is America, I thought: life follows a diff erent kind of logic here.” Nicky F. Rompa is a twenty-something Indonesian immigrant who comes to America with a bag of unresolved issues. To get away from his abusive father back home, Nicky goes on to stay with his relatives in Boston. Pretty soon, it seems as though he is living the dream: he meets a beautiful Russian girl, goes on road trips, gets a job, and fi nally experiences ...
Kitchen Curse
Nominated for the Man Booker International, Eka Kurniawan brings his short stories into English for the first time Eka Kurniawan’s freewheeling imagination explores the turbulent dreams of an ex-prostitute, the hapless life of a perpetual student, victims of an anticommunist genocide, the travails of an elephant, even the vengeful fantasies of a stone. Dark, sexual, scatological, violent, and mordantly funny, these fractured fables span city and country, animal and human, myth and politics. Like nothing else, Kurniawan’s stories bury themselves in the mind. His characters and insights are at once hauntingly familiar, peculiar, and twisted.
ICCoLLiC 2020
ICCoLLIC is an international conference hosted by the English Department, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Sebelas Maret. This conference is arranged to become an annual conference making room for scholars and practitioners in the area of communication, language, literature, and culture to share their thoughts, knowledge, and recent researches in the field of study.
9 Summers 10 Autums (Edisi Bahasa Inggris)
"""future is a mystery; than where does our riches belong to if not the past, even though there's still some bitterness there? --Mohamad Sobary (Former Director of Antara News Agency) This book is an important manuscript that is filled with the essence of hardwork, the warmth of family, and a journey. It is a bright practice of man jadda wajada. I hope you will be touched by his spirit and patience. The son of a minibus driver in the corner of East Java who shines in New York. Inspirational! --Ahmad Fuadi (writer of the best-selling trilogy Negeri 5 Menara) The power of education, life and the love of a family brought Iwan to a journey across the world to New York City where he gets to pursu...
If Only
If Only is a memoir of a nine year old Chinese Indonesian girl growing up in Jakarta in the 1950–60’s. She lost her mother who dies after the sixth attempt to bear a son. If she were a boy, her mother would still be alive. This accusation has tormented her all her life. When her cousin physically assaulted her, her father who despises his five daughters didn’t take any action. Her repressed anger causes, years later, cancer. She overcomes the traumatic and difficult youth by her love of reading. Although coming from a dysfunctional family, she later becomes one of the most popular romance writers in the country. This is her first non-fiction.
Memories of Unbelonging
The ethnic Chinese have had a long and problematic history in Indonesia, commonly stereotyped as a market-dominant minority with dubious political loyalty toward Indonesia. For over three decades under Suharto’s New Order regime, a cultural assimilation policy banned Chinese languages, cultural expression, schools, media, and organizations. This policy was only abolished in 1998 following the riots and anti-Chinese attacks that preceded the fall of the New Order. In the post-Suharto era, Chinese Indonesians were finally free to assert their Chineseness again. But how does an ethnic group recover from the trauma of assimilation and regain a lost cultural identity? Memories of Unbelonging is...
Path of Discovery
PAI Design, under design and production director Thomas Elliott, is purposely structured as a studio style architectural firm with design and production staff as one group, to ensure continuity of design and co-ordination from conceptualisation through to implementation. The design partner in charge of each job oversees the project's development at each stage, ensuring architectural coherence. This text presents some of PAI Design's design projects.
Cerita Cinta Indonesia
Beragam tema, beragam kisah terangkum di kumpulan cerita pendek Cerita Cinta Indonesia ini. Mulai dari jejak sastra hingga cerita pendek TeenLit tergores dalam 45 cerpen buah karya 45 penulis yang pasti sudah Anda kenal. Kumpulan cerita pendek ini adalah semacam bentuk syukur dan terima kasih bahwa kami masih bisa meneruskan seManga, Manhua & Manhwat dalam berkarya. Membaca kumpulan cerita pendek ini seakan memilih beraneka rasa dan rupa dalam sajian paket lengkap. Sebab, ada begitu terlalu banyak kisah kehidupan yang menunggu untuk diceritakan, dan yang terdapat dalam buku ini hanya sebagian kecilnya. Tak pernah cukup kisah cinta, misteri, persahabatan, dan beragam tema lainnya di dunia ini untuk ditampilkan dalam bentuk karya sastra atau cerita populer. Apa pun rasa dan rupa yang Anda dapatkan saat membacanya, kami berharap Anda menikmati sajian Cerita Cinta dengan rasa Indonesia ini.
Jorge Luis Borges, Realisme Magis, dan Filsafat
Dunia terus tumbuh dengan cepat tanpa sepenuhnya mampu kita pahami dan ikuti. Membaca membantu kita perlahan menyadari obskuritas dan ketidakpastian yang kita alami hari ini. Sebagaimana kita pun tahu, sastra adalah salah satu hal yang membuka ruang baru bagi pengalaman psikis kita sebagai individu maupun kelompok, karena darinya kita membaca kehidupan manusia, yang sekalipun dikemas sebagai sebuah fiksi, merupakan tangkapan terhadap realitas historis kita. Buku ini adalah kumpulan interaksi saya dengan buku-buku dan peristiwa. Saya membaca Borges, kemudian Bukowski, Orwell, Sapardi, Kundera, Blackpink, Saramago, Heidegger, dan lainnya, berusaha menangkap hal-hal lain yang tak tertangkap dalam sekali pembacaan. Semua itu membuat saya semakin ingin banyak membaca. Saya percaya bahwa, membaca akan memberikan peta kepada hati dan pikiran kita untuk menentukan arah dan letak yang mesti kita tuju sebagai manusia yang sebenarnya. Wawan Kurniawan
Winter Dreams - Perjalanan Semusim Ilusi
"""Karakter dalam Winter Dreams akan memicu simpati para pembaca; perjalanan mereka adalah sesuatu yang ingin terus saya ikuti sampai habis."" -Awi Suryadi, sutradara & co-writer SIMFONI LUAR BIASA. Nicky F. Rompa tak sengaja terdampar di negeri orang bersama jutaan imigran ilegal yang membawa kisah mereka masing-masing ke dalam salah satu kota paling bersejarah di Pantai Timur AS. Mengambil setting di Boston, Mass.-dan dikemas dalam atmosfer romantisme urban-Winter Dreams menyajikan mimpi-mimpi yang tak jarang melebur ke dalam realita dan melahirkan sebuah ilusi epik. Sekali lagi, Maggie Tiojakin menunjukkan kepiawaiannya dalam menghadirkan tokoh-tokoh anti-hero klasik yang berpotensi memic...
