Paperback – IDWRITERS

Rainbow: 18 Indonesian Women Poets

August 11, 2018 by

Rootless Black Roses

August 11, 2018 by

This novel, set in West Papua's accurate historical and political context, weaves together the narratives of one family to provide a compelling picture of West Papuans' experiences under Indonesian oppression. … [Read more...]

Mawar Hitam Tanpa Akar

August 11, 2018 by

A Conspiracy of God-Killers

August 7, 2018 by

Twenty-two stories by this noted Central Java-based writer and poet in his first collection in English, with their continent- and time-spanning backdrops of history and imagination. Stories populated by bereaved cops, heartless assassins, sainted heroes and mad saviours, dissolute poets, disgusted … [Read more...]

The Rose of Cikembang

August 7, 2018 by

First published in 1927 as Bunga Roos dari Tjikembang, Kwee Tek Hoay’s The Rose of Cikembangis an excellent example of the so-called peranakan literature of the Dutch East Indies that flourished between 1900 and the Japanese Occupation beginning in 1942. Highly sentimental in tone, the novel is … [Read more...]