Without the others i have no meaning. It has no function. And nothing. Through Olenka, Budi Darma is in fact revealing the darkest secret in the human soul. Unique characters with raging minds are spoken interestingly. A novel with a full-length title. … [Read more...]
Dear Jane
August 23, 2020 by
The novel follows Jane, a beautiful but troubled, warm but distant, exciting but sorrowful young woman who traverses across city to city, lover to lover, age to age, in the hopes to find a place where she can belong. A bildungsroman from girlhood to womanhood that is both familiar and foreign, … [Read more...]
Anak Semua Bangsa
August 9, 2020 by
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...]