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...]
Perfect & Other Short Stories
August 2, 2018 by
Avianti Armand is a writer, architect, and curator. She began to write architectural reviews in 1992 but turned her hand to poetry and short stories in 2008. Her work as both architect and author has garnered several awards and gained her wide recognition. … [Read more...]
A Man Bathing & Other Poems
August 2, 2018 by
The poetry of Hanna Fransisca is heavily-laden with Chinese cultural metaphors. The pleasures of eating and cooking might be shadowed by violence and sacrifice, or even eroticism and sadism. We hear multiple voices in Fransisca’s poetry: those of both the minority Chinese and all the women who … [Read more...]
Final Party and Other Stories
August 2, 2018 by
The characters in Linda Christanty’s stories are placed in situations that force them to battle their inner demons. The achievement of personal insight, however, does not necessarily mean that her characters achieve redemption or resolution to their problems. Christanty explores the dark side of … [Read more...]
Not Virgin Mary
August 2, 2018 by
Not Virgin Mary is the humorous stories of contemporary Islamic myths and daily lives in Indonesia. We meet an angel is having mental fatigue and has enough of the human follies, a pig who has a touching and endearing request, or a suicide bomber having a terrible shock in the waiting room before he … [Read more...]
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