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Dan Perang Pun Usai
The final days of World War II serve as the backdrop for this novel by Ismail Marahimin. Fighting has not reached the small Sumatran village of Taratakbuluh, but the quiet, tradition-bound way of life in this remote outpost on the jungles edge has nonetheless been transformed, for the Japanese have … [Read more...]
Reset
After the Last War destroyed most of the world, survivors form a new society in four self-sustaining cities in the Mojave Desert. In the utopia of the Four Cities, inspired by the lyrics of “Imagine” and Buddhist philosophy, everything is carefully planned and controlled: the seasons, the … [Read more...]
Buanglah Hajat pada Tempatnya
Once upon a time in a post-apocalyptic world far far away, the Earth is already destroyed, contaminated, and inhabitable, except in a metallic dome where the inner layer is protected from external contact. Inside, there live the few remaining humans. Unfortunately, amid the debris inside, only one … [Read more...]
The Fish Girl
Sparked by the description of a ‘Malay trollope’ in W. Somerset Maugham’s story, ‘The Four Dutchmen’, Mirandi Riwoe’s novella, The Fish Girl, tells of an Indonesian girl whose life is changed irrevocably when she moves from a small fishing village to work in the house of a Dutch merchant. There she … [Read more...]