After a snake bit his lover dead in a small village in the Maluku Islands in the mid-nineteenth century, Boki Nia decided to live in seclusion deep in the forest, alone, until death took him. He spends the rest of his life passing the time by constructing a tower before the Hener Falls. After … [Read more...]
Brother Poem
March 18, 2023 by
A speculative-poetic work from the Forward Prize-winning, T.S. Eliot shortlisted author of RENDANG 4 million years ago, a tiny branch in the multiverse led to the formation of Brother Poem, a book from a dimension uncannily like our own but intuited through signs, whispers, glitches, and echoes, … [Read more...]
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
March 18, 2023 by
A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties. Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady--ah, lady of a certain age--who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of … [Read more...]
Habit of a Foreign Sky
March 12, 2023 by
Somewhere between Hong Kong and New York, life does an abrupt shift for Gail Szeto, when her mother, her last family member, is killed in an accident. For Gail, a mixed-race, single mother who had buried her young son less than two years prior, all she has left is a hard-won career at a global … [Read more...]
Indonesia Out of Exile
February 8, 2023 by
In 1981, a new company, Hasta Mitra, founded by three men just released from over a decade in prison, published a novel written in a prison camp by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. The novel was This Earth of Mankind. It told the story of the early gestation of the Indonesian national awakening. The … [Read more...]
