Paperback – IDWRITERS

A Tinderbox in Three Acts

November 12, 2022 by

Selected by Aracelis Girmay, A Tinderbox in Three Acts is at once elegy and exegesis, fact and invention. In her fourth poetry collection, Cynthia Dewi Oka performs a lyric accounting of the anti-Communist genocide of 1965, which, led by the Indonesian military and with American assistance, … [Read more...]

Arum Manis – Cerita Bukan tentang Cerita Kita

October 15, 2022 by

About a traveler who wants to plant a rose seed on the lips of a woman beneath the Lempuyangan Bridge. A dragon hidden in the woman's mouth then becomes a witness to their toxic relationship with her lover. A banana growing on the table, a man infatuated with cakes, and a man constantly searching … [Read more...]

Burung Kayu

October 9, 2022 by

An ethnographic novel. The novel starts with the personal affairs and a personal conflict leading to a bigger conflict between two groups of people. The issues about Mentawai customs on marriage, living along with their battle with modernism are scattered throughout the book. The purpose of the … [Read more...]

Unsaid: An Asian Anthology

October 9, 2022 by

His wife’s voice was unmistakable. She was moaning and sighing, and he could hear his divan creaking. How he wished he had not come home that night. He was a mere mortal. His heart had betrayed him. What can he do? Somewhere else in the world a child watches her father bullied into submission, … [Read more...]

Lebih Senyap dari Bisikan

July 23, 2022 by

Andina Dwifatma's second novel, after One Season and Another (2013)—the winner of the Jakarta Arts Council Novel Contest. This novel opens the reader's eyes with the story of Amara and the bittersweet life of women in finding valuable thing in life. … [Read more...]