Reading Holy Books is like entering a labyrinth. In that labyrinth fact and fiction are tangled. Worlds intertwined with words. And those words present a chunk of a universe, which is incomplete and not entirely truthful, it hides some things that we do not yet know. The poems in this book are … [Read more...]
Blood Moon over Aceh
October 16, 2018 by
The story is set between 1989 and 2002 in Alue Rambe, an isolated agricultural village south of Lhokseumawe City, in Aceh, Indonesia. Born in 1976, into a famer’s family, Nazir’s life becomes a part of Aceh’s dark, rebellious history that recounts the injustice the Soeharto government imposed on the … [Read more...]
Santa Rosa
September 5, 2018 by
Just like Kill the Radio, Santa Rosa is also bilingual, in Indonesian and English. In the 26 Indonesian and English poems, Rosa as a poet created distance by raising the character of Santa Rosa. There are two Rosa in this book, the poet and the saint. Santa is a women saint in the Catholic … [Read more...]
The Rose of Cikembang
August 7, 2018 by
First published in 1927 as Bunga Roos dari Tjikembang, Kwee Tek Hoay’s The Rose of Cikembangis an excellent example of the so-called peranakan literature of the Dutch East Indies that flourished between 1900 and the Japanese Occupation beginning in 1942. Highly sentimental in tone, the novel is … [Read more...]
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