At the height of Mao's infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for "re-education." The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find themselves in a remote village where, among the peasants of Phoenix mountain, they are made to cart buckets of excrement up and down precipitous winding paths. Their meager dis…
South Africa developed six nuclear missiles in the 1980s, then voluntarily dismantled them in 1994. This is a story about the seventh missile - the one that was never supposed to have existed.
Offers an in-depth exploration of Shakespeare's character Cleopatra, delving into the complexities of her personality as well as how the author's understanding of her has evolved over the years.
On social conditions in Indonesia.
An historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To Kill a Mockingbird. Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was…
Terkadang, aku bisa sangat membenci ayahku (baca: Poseidon). Pada usia 17, dalam kesibukanku mendaftar kuliah di Universitas Roma Baru, aku diberi tahu bahwa aku membutuhkan 3 surat rekomendasi dari 3 dewa berbeda. Untuk alasan menyebalkan: eksistensiku di dunia ini menyalahi aturan. Aku tidak layak masuk Roma Baru hanya karena ayahku melanggar perjanjian: dewa Tiga Besar tidak boleh punya anak…
"Apalah arti memiliki, ketika did kami sendiri bukanlah milik kami? Apalah arti kehilangan, ketika kami sebenarnya menemukan banyak saat kehilangan dan sebaliknya, kehilangan banyak pula saat menemukan? Apalah arti cinta, ketika menangis terluka atas perasaan yg seharusnya indah? Bagaimana mungkin, kami terduduk patah hati atas sesuatu yang seharusnya suci dan tidak menuntut apa pun? Wahai, buk…
"Cerita tentang sakit hati, kebencian, dan dendam kesumat.".