Jakarta kerap menjadi pelabuhan bagi mereka yang datang membawa sekoper harapan. Mereka yang siap bertaruh dengan nasibnya sendiri-sendiri. Namun, kota ini selalu mampu melumat habis harapan dan menukarnya dengan keputusasaan. Pemulung, pengamen, pramuria yang menjajakan tubuh agar anaknya bisa makan, pemimpin-pemimpin kecil yang culas, lelaki tua di balik kostum badut ayam, pencuri motor yang ingin membeli obat untuk ibunya, remaja yang melumuri tubuh dengan cat perak, hingga mereka yang bergelut di terminal setelah terpaksa merelakan impiannya habis digerus kejinya ibu kota. Di Jakarta, semua orang dipaksa bergelut dan bertempur demi bisa hidup dari hari ke hari. Dan di kampung inilah semua itu dimulai. Sebuah cerita tentang kehidupan orang-orang yang hidup di sisi tergelap surga kota bernama Jakarta...

Joseon (Korea), 1758. There are few options available to illegitimate daughters in the capital city, but through hard work and study, eighteen-year-old Hyeon has earned a position as a palace nurse. All she wants is to keep her head down, do a good job, and perhaps finally win her estranged father's approval.But Hyeon is suddenly thrust into the dark and dangerous world of court politics when someone murders four women in a single night, and the prime suspect is Hyeon's closest friend and mentor. Determined to prove her beloved teacher's innocence, Hyeon launches her own secret investigation.In her hunt for the truth, she encounters Eojin, a young police inspector also searching for the killer. When evidence begins to point to the Crown Prince himself as the murderer, Hyeon and Eojin must work together to search the darkest corners of the palace to uncover the deadly secrets behind the bloodshed.

Ketika si mantan suami muncul lagi untuk memeras Yasuko Hanaoka dan putrinya, keadaan menjadi tak terkendali, hingga si mantan suami terbujur kaku di lantai apartemen. Yasuko berniat menghubungi polisi, tetapi mengurungkan niatnya ketika Ishigami, tetangganya, menawarkan bantuan untuk menyembunyikan mayat itu. Saat mayat tersebut ditemukan, penyidikan Detektif Kusanagi mengarah kepada Yasuko. Namun sekuat apa pun insting detektifnya, alibi wanita itu sulit sekali dipatahkan. Kusanagi berkonsultasi dengan sahabatnya, Dr. Manabu Yukawa sang Profesor Galileo, yang ternyata teman kuliah Ishigami. Diselingi nostalgia masa-masa kuliah, Yukawa sang pakar fisika beradu kecerdasan dengan Ishigami, sang genius matematika. Ishigami berjuang melindungi Yasuko dengan berusaha mengakali dan memperdaya Yukawa, yang baru kali ini menemukan lawan paling cerdas dan bertekad baja.

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.