Mengangkat tema sosial dan pergulatan manusia dalam menghadapi tekanan hidup dan perubahan zaman. Dengan gaya bahasa yang lugas dan kuat, penulis menggambarkan konflik yang melibatkan persoalan kemanusiaan, ketidakadilan, dan perjuangan untuk mempertahankan nilai-nilai moral di tengah situasi yang tidak menentu. Novel ini merefleksikan realitas kehidupan masyarakat Indonesia dan menunjukkan kem…
Menggambarkan perjuangan tokoh-tokoh bangsa dalam menghadapi tekanan dan penjajahan pada masa kolonial. Melalui narasi yang hidup dan detail, penulis menyajikan perjalanan para pejuang yang berjuang menegakkan martabat bangsa di tengah ketidakadilan. Novel ini memadukan fakta sejarah dengan unsur dramatik sehingga memberikan gambaran emosional mengenai kehidupan sosial, politik, dan pergolakan …
“Ratapan Tanah Air” adalah terjemahan dari novel klasik Alan Paton berjudul Cry, the Beloved Country yang menggambarkan pergulatan moral dan sosial di Afrika Selatan pada masa apartheid. Kisah ini mengikuti perjalanan seorang pendeta desa bernama Stephen Kumalo yang pergi ke Johannesburg untuk mencari anaknya yang hilang. Dalam perjalanannya, ia menghadapi ketidakadilan rasial, kehancuran k…
Birute Galdikas, along with Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall, form the famed trio of “angels” Louis Leakey trained to study great apes in the wild. While Fossey studied the gorilla and Goodall the chimpanzee, Galdikas went to Borneo to study the orangutan and, decades later, emerged as a complicated figure, embroiled in scandal. Spalding’s quest to know this woman takes her from the offices o…
El Filibusterismo (The Subversive) is the second novel by José Rizal (1861–1896), national hero of the Philippines. Like its predecessor, the better-known Noli Me Tangere, the Fili was written in Castilian while Rizal was traveling and studying in Europe. It was published in Ghent in 1891 and later translated into English, German, French, Japanese, Tagalog, Ilonggo, and other languages. A na…
Regarded as a classic of Western Literature, Don Quixote is the most translated book in the world. Revolving around the life of a middle-aged gentleman Don Quixote, this book is a parody of chivalric romance. Earnestly following ideal chivalry described in books, the author caricatures Alonso Quixano who sets out on his old horse Rocinante, as a knight, in search of glory and grand adventure…
Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a generation and established America as a world power. Spring 1916: the horror of a stalemate on Europe’s western front. France and Great B…
El Filibusterismo (The Rise of Greed) is a sequel to his first novel Noli Me Tangere, set against the backdrop of a mysterious character named Ibarra who continues to move underground, revealing the omnipotence of the Spanish colonizers aided by the fatwas of the clergy. Perusing page after page of this masterful literary work is like looking in a clear mirror. Our smudged face will become clea…
Internest Dr. Alex Seacourt bumps into a harried man on a busy New York street and unknowingly hurls himself into an evil plot to hold the world hostage through the threat of plutonium poisoning. Seacourt is poisoned and, with time running out, attempts to find an antidote to save himself and the world.
Colin Burke, the Washington tribune's Moscow correspondent, breaks a worldwide story about the party based on information he received from a deep Soviet source. But his source didn't tell him everything and suddenly Burke is a target, an unwitting pawn with an explosive secret, a die-hard professional chasing the story of his life through a maze of danger deceit... from Russian bathhouses to ex…