Paperback – IDWRITERS

The Burnished Sun

April 9, 2022 by

This stunning story collection includes two prize-winning novellas along with an impressive range of historical and contemporary stories, all written by characters who yearn to belong and find acceptance. … [Read more...]

Mata Pena

April 8, 2022 by

After discovering a corpse floating at the Manggarai flood gate, Jakarta residents were enraged. The body was identified by police as Kuncoro Lukito, a finance employee of PT Lambda Prima. The media crew was also competing to learn the truth about the incident. Horizon Aneska, a journalist for … [Read more...]

Heart of the Night

April 7, 2022 by

Darius was perfectly comfortable living in his world of occasional inanities. He was the unsullied king of ease and complacency. Nothing could have ruffled his existence until one fateful night when things unaccountably turned complicated. Without rhyme of reason, the women he so dearly loved left … [Read more...]

Suddenly the Night

April 2, 2022 by

Suddenly the Night is an collection of poetry by Sapardi Djoko Damono, one of Indonesia's preeminent poets. As is stated in the introduction to the book, "More than any other contemprary Indonesian poet, Sapardi realizes that poetry is more than convention and that convention is not necessarily a … [Read more...]

Rejection: A Sumatran Odyssey

March 19, 2022 by

Rejection: A Sumatran Odyssey is an epic family drama by Ashadi Siregar set against the turbulent years following Indonesia’s independence. The story follows Tondi who as a young man joins the separatist rebellion of the late 1950s and early 1960s in North Sumatra. Later he moves to Java and finds … [Read more...]