The Geography of Bliss membawa pembaca melanglang buana ke berbagai negara, dari Belanda, Swiss, Bhutan, hingga Qatar, Islandia, India dan Amerika ... untuk mencari kebahagiaan. Buku ini adalah campuran aneh tulisan perjalanan, psikologi, sains, dan humor. DItulis tidak untuk mencari makna kebahagiaan, tapi di mana. Apakah orang-orang di Swiss lebih bahagia karena negara mereka paling demokr…
KISAH LELAKI YANG SANGAT PERCAYA PADA ‘TAKDIR’, DAN WANITA YANG MENGANGGAP SEMUA KEJADIAN HANYA ‘KEBETULAN SEMATA’. Chae Song Hwa, Cinderella Bertubuh Besar “Dasar lelaki cabul! Awas saja kalau kau tertangkap tanganku lagi.” Lelaki itu sungguh arogan. Ia menganggap bahwa seluruh wanita di Korea Selatan harus menyukainya. Selain itu, ia juga punya kebiasaan berbicara banmal ke…
Ratu-ratu Mongol abad ketiga belas memerintah kekaisaran terbesar yang pernah diketahui dunia. Namun, pada suatu saat menjelang pengujung abad, para penyensor memotong satu bagian dalam The Secret History of the Mongols. Hanya isyarat tentang warisan sang Genghis Khan untuk putri-putrinya itulah yang tersisa dari satu kisah yang jauh lebih besar. Para ratu Jalur Sutra mengubah wilayah penakl…
Enam anak muda dari berbagai daerah di Indonesia—Slamet dari Trenggalek, Poltak dari Pematang Siantar, Ria dari Padang, Benny dari Jakarta, Gun Gun dari Ciamis, dan Fuad dari Surabaya—dipersatukan dalam sebuah persahabatan di kampus Jalan Ganesha, Institut Teknologi Bandung. Bersama-sama mereka mulai mengayunkan langkah dengan penuh idealisme dan cita-cita. Bertahun-tahun, anak-anak muda…
Kata siapa kuliah di luar negeri itu gampang? Perkenalkan Lintang, Banjar, Wicak, Daus, dan Geri. Lima anak manusia terlahir di Indonesia, terdampar bersekolah di Belanda demi meraih gelar S2. Mulai dari kurang tidur karena begadang demi paper, kurang tenaga karena mesti genjot sepeda 5 km bolak-balik ke kampus setiap hari, sampai kurang duit hingga terpaksa mencari pekerjaan paruh waktu; se…
This is the story of a quiet man, destined to be a farmer but who becomes an academic. It is book in which nothing and everything happens and is possibly the greatest novel you've never read. 'It's simply a novel about a guy who goes to college and becomes a teacher. But its one of the most fascinating things that you've ever come across' Tom Hanks, Time William Stoner enters the Universi…
Michel is ten years old, living in Pointe Noire, Congo, in the 1970s. His mother sells peanuts at the market, his father works at the Victory Palace Hotel, and brings home books left behind by the white guests. Planes cross the sky overhead, and Michel and his friend Lounès dream about the countries where they'll land. While news comes over the radio of the American hostage crisis in Tehran, t…
'Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything - even die' - Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan. In 1993, after a terrifying and disastrous attempt to climb K2, a mountaineer called Greg Mortenson drifted, cold and dehyd…
In response to the growing use of sophisticated digital encryption to conceal potential threats to the United States, the National Security Agency has ushered forth the new dawn of intelligence-gathering techniques. The top-secret initiative is dubbed Third Echelon. Its existence denied by the U.S. government, Third Echelon deploys a lone field operative. He is sharp, nearly invisible, and d…
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. The black sign, painted in white letters that hangs upon the gates, reads: Opens at Nightfalll Closes at Dawn As the sun disappears beyond the horizon, all over the tents small lights begin to flicker, as though the entirety of the circus is covered in particularly bright fi…