The story is set between 1989 and 2002 in Alue Rambe, an isolated agricultural village south of Lhokseumawe City, in Aceh, Indonesia. Born in 1976, into a famer’s family, Nazir’s life becomes a part of Aceh’s dark, rebellious history that recounts the injustice the Soeharto government imposed on the … [Read more...]

In the novel Sobary talks about 'absurdity". For him, the social world has a structure that seems to be well organised, its patterns easily recognised, its rules well defined, such as the bureaucracy; but in reality the paths of human lives do not necessarily follow strictly the lines set up by the … [Read more...]

Written by Mochtar Lubis and published in 1952, Jalan Tak Ada Ujung is a psychological novel that explores fear and its consequences. The story follows Guru Isa, a gentle and kind-hearted schoolteacher whose life is upended during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia. The horrors of war leave him … [Read more...]