Saksi Mata

A journalist cum novelist, Seno Gumira presents history and fiction with a clarity that is more effective than dry, and a somewhat murky story on what actually happened in Timor Leste (formerly Indonesia's province of East Timor). The short stories focus on individuals that become victims of … [Read more...]

Kitchen Curse

Hailed as a Southeast Asian Gabriel Garcia Marquez for the exuberant beauty of his prose and the darkly comic surrealism of his stories, Eka Kurniawan is the first Indonesian writer to be nominated for a Man Booker Prize. Here is his first collection of short stories—Indonesian literature's … [Read more...]

Kritikus Adinan

The collection has fifteen short stories mostly written in the 1970s while the rest without any timestamp. … [Read more...]

They Say I’m a Monkey

They Say I'm a Monkey is a collection of short-stories from the young Indonesian writer Djenar Maesa Ayu. In the eleven stories, Djenar turns footnotes of urban Jakarta life, and the inner lives of the city's inhabitants, into stories that keep in their narratives both the magic and the realism … [Read more...]

Mereka Bilang, Saya Monyet!

They Say I'm a Monkey is a collection of short-stories from the young Indonesian writer Djenar Maesa Ayu. In the eleven stories, Djenar turns footnotes of urban Jakarta life, and the inner lives of the city's inhabitants, into stories that keep in their narratives both the magic and the realism … [Read more...]

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