In the vast underground world of ants, every life serves the colony. Queens give birth to the future. Workers labour without rest. Soldiers defend the nest. And generation after generation, the cycle endures. When a catastrophe destroys her home, the young queen Darojak finds refuge in a foreign … [Read more...]
The Book of Mating
May 10, 2026 by
The Book of Mating is a masterfully translated collection of stories in which Indonesian women explore the full spectrum of mating: marital, sexual, and spiritual; forced and free; transcendent, ruinous, and mundane. Laksmi Pamuntjak portrays both the constraints and opportunities facing … [Read more...]
Against the Grain
February 25, 2026 by
Sulastri and Sudarmo, the protagonists of Suwarsih Djojopuspito’ novel, Against the Grain, faced the inevitability of such events as teachers in one of the unauthorized (“wild”) schools of 1930’s Java. This strongly autobiographical work depicts the lives of Indonesians, particularly its youth, who … [Read more...]
Olenka
February 25, 2026 by
The first English translation of a prize-winning novel set in the American Midwest by Indonesia’s celebrated writer of absurdist realism In Bloomington, Indiana, the indistinguishable Fanton Drummond’s life changes when he encounters Olenka Danton in an elevator. Fanton is infatuated at first … [Read more...]
La tropa del arcoíris
February 10, 2026 by
Cuando Andrea Hirata empezó a escribir La tropa del arcoíris, no se podía imaginar que en su mesa de trabajo empezaba a latir el corazón de una novela que estallaría en todo el mundo. El pulso que diez chavales inolvidables y dos profesores echaron al gobierno indonesio al obstinarse en mantener … [Read more...]
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