Budaya ziarah Jawa, dengan keragaman dan kontradiksinya, merupakan gugatan terhadap ragam baku agama Islam yang semakin menguat di lanskap keagamaan Indonesia sejak 1980-an. Menurut ragam baku ini, Islam sejati itu murni dan eksklusif. Kesalehan muncul dari kepatuhan terhadap wibawa agama: sunnah dan aturan-aturannya. Ziarah lokal sama sekali tidak murni dan eksklusif, tidak juga memaksakan wib…
What was lost will be found... Washington DC: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned at the last minute to deliver an evening lecture in the Capitol Building. Within moments of his arrival, however, a disturbing object - gruesomely encoded with five symbols - is discovered at the epicenter of the Rotunda. It is, he recognizes, an ancient invitation, meant to beckon its recipient towa…
Kisah yang diangkat dari kehidupan sehari-hari di tepi tebing. Mungkin kisah ini mirip dengan kisah yang terjadi pada kehidupan anak-anak atau mungkin juga tidak mirip sama sekali. Adalah sebuah bangunan bercat biru yang digunakan sebagai sekolah dan tempat seekor sapi berteduh pada malamnya. Bangunan itu terletak di tepi tebing, dimana angin selalu bertiup kencang setiap hari. Oleh dua bela…
Raihan akhir-akhir ini susah sekali bangun pagi. Beberapa kali malah terlewat sholat subuh. Kata kak Rumi mungkin setan Ruha sudah berhasil mengikat Raihan sehingga Raihan malas bangun pagi. Ih ngeri banget deh! Apakah benar Raihan kalah dengan setan Ruha?
Liburan telah usai. Betapa senangnya kembali ke St Clare! Bertemu teman-teman lama, berkenalan dengan teman-teman baru, mengadakan pesta tengah malam, iseng mengganggu guru... dan tentu saja tak ketinggalan kerja keras untuk mendapat nilai yang tinggi. Semua itu memang mereka alami. Dan lebih lagi! Karena anak-anak baru lebih meramaikan suasana. Terutama Margery, yang ternyata sama sek…
Pengakuan: Eks Parasit Lajang (Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia, 2013) adalah autobiografi seksualitas dan spiritualitas Ayu Utami. Seperti Cerita Cinta Enrico, kisah nyata ini ditulis dalam bentuk novel, dengan tokoh A, seorang perempuan yang memutuskan untuk melepas keperawanannya di usia dua puluh tahun, untuk sekaligus menghapus konsep keperawanan yang baginya tidak adil. Selama tahun-tahun ber…
This is the story of Charles, a child of divorce who is always forced to choose between his mother and his father. He grows into a man and starts a family of his own. But one fateful weekend, he leaves his mother to secretly be with his father - and she dies while he is gone. This haunts him for years. It unravels his own young family. It leads him to depression and drunkenness. One night, he d…
With her mom working crazy hours at a dilapidated motel and her sister on welfare, fourteen-year-old Keisha is determined to attend Avery University for a precollege premed program but is instead sent to a summer program for at-risk kids where she discovers a passion for swimming, in a novel that details the many challenges one must face to succeed.
This is the wise, unsettling, drastic story of three women whose lives share a common wound: Zenia, a woman they first met as university students in the sixties. Zenia is smart and beautiful, by turns manipulative, vulnerable and irresistible. She has entered into their separate lives to ensnare their sympathy, betray their trust, and exploit their weaknesses. Now Zenia, thought dead, has sudde…
Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job “a million girls would die for.” Hired as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful editor of Runway magazine, Andrea finds herself in an office that shouts Prada! Armani! Versace! at every turn, a world populated by impossibly thin, heart-wrenchingly stylish women and beautiful men clad in …