Pramoedya Ananta Toer has been compared to John Steinbeck (The Washington Post), Nadine Gordimer (The Nation), and Charles Dickens (Publishers Weekly). He shares with Naguib Mahfouz the ability to "achieve what few writers today are able to accomplish: drawing the reader, body and soul, into another … [Read more...]
The King, the Witch and the Priest : A Twelfth-Century Javanese Tale (Calon Arang)
May 19, 2018 by
"Centuries ago, there was, in the eastern part of the island of Java, a kingdom by the name of Daha..." So begins The King, the Witch and the Priest, a fable with contemporary allure that is based on the story of Calon Arang, a Javanese legend dating from the twelfth century. As tradition tells it, … [Read more...]
Fireflies in Manhattan
April 30, 2018 by
Marno took out a cigarette, then stood and went to the window. Lowering his gaze he looked at the jungle of skyscrapers. They appeared to be asleep. The pale moonlight made them look cold and hard. A feeling of emptiness and loneliness surged within him. from the short story “A Thousand Fireflies … [Read more...]
The Garden of Delights & Other Tales
April 19, 2018 by
Azhari’s reimagined stories of Aceh in the 17th century encompass a garden of extraordinary beauty, a turtle with chin hairs, pirates in the waters of the Malacca Straits, and so much more. The author’s enthralling storytelling, reminiscent of the 1001 Nights, makes you, the reader, ever so … [Read more...]
The Fall and the Heart
March 17, 2018 by
The Fall and the Heart by S Rukiah is one of the lesser known classics of the Indonesian revolutionary era and arguably the strongest piece of prose writing by an Indonesian woman author before the 1970s. Rukiah’s account of a young, middle-class woman’s experiences with her lover, her family, and … [Read more...]
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