Namanya Salva. Panggilannya Ava. Namun papanya memanggil dia Saliva atau ludah karena menganggapnya tidak berguna. Ava sekeluarga pindah ke Rusun Nero setelah Kakek Kia meninggal. Kakek Kia, ayahnya Papa, pernah memberi Ava kamus sebagai hadiah ulang tahun yang ketiga. Sejak itu Ava menjadi anak yang pintar berbahasa Indonesia. Sayangnya, kebanyakan orang dewasa lebih menganggap penting anak yang pintar berbahasa Inggris. Setelah pindah ke Rusun Nero, Ava bertemu dengan anak laki-laki bernama P. Iya, namanya hanya terdiri dari satu huruf P. Dari pertemuan itulah, petualangan Ava dan P bermula hingga sampai pada akhir yang mengejutkan. Ditulis dengan alur yang penuh kejutan dan gaya bercerita yang unik, sudah selayaknya para juri sayembara memilih novel Di Tanah Lada sebagai salah satu juaranya.

Namanya Salva. Panggilannya Ava. Namun papanya memanggil dia Saliva atau ludah karena menganggapnya tidak berguna. Ava sekeluarga pindah ke Rusun Nero setelah Kakek Kia meninggal. Kakek Kia, ayahnya Papa, pernah memberi Ava kamus sebagai hadiah ulang tahun yang ketiga. Sejak itu Ava menjadi anak yang pintar berbahasa Indonesia. Sayangnya, kebanyakan orang dewasa lebih menganggap penting anak yang pintar berbahasa Inggris. Setelah pindah ke Rusun Nero, Ava bertemu dengan anak laki-laki bernama P. Iya, namanya hanya terdiri dari satu huruf P. Dari pertemuan itulah, petualangan Ava dan P bermula hingga sampai pada akhir yang mengejutkan. Ditulis dengan alur yang penuh kejutan dan gaya bercerita yang unik, sudah selayaknya para juri sayembara memilih novel Di Tanah Lada sebagai salah satu juaranya.

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time... From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes a story of four new customers each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Cafe Funiculi Funicula's time-travelling offer. Among some faces that will be familiar to readers of Kawaguchi's previous novel, we will be introduced to: The man who goes back to see his best friend who died 22 years ago The son who was unable to attend his own mother’s funeral The man who travelled to see the girl who he could not marry The old detective who never gave his wife that gift... This beautiful, simple tale tells the story of people who must face up to their past, in order to move on with their lives. Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time?

Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting emotional depth, Kawakami is today one of Japan’s most important and best-selling writers. She exploded onto the cultural scene first as a musician, then as a poet and popular blogger, and is now an award-winning novelist. Breasts and Eggs paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan and recounts the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppressive mores and their own uncertainties on the road to finding peace and futures they can truly call their own. It tells the story of three women: the thirty-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makiko’s daughter, Midoriko. Makiko has traveled to Tokyo in search of an affordable breast enhancement procedure. She is accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently grown silent, finding herself unable to voice the vague yet overwhelming pressures associated with growing up. Her silence proves a catalyst for each woman to confront her fears and frustrations. On another hot summer’s day ten years later, Natsu, on a journey back to her native city, struggles with her own indeterminate identity as she confronts anxieties about growing old alone and childless.

Rachel Waring is deliriously happy. Out of nowhere, a great-aunt leaves her a Georgian mansion in another city--and she sheds her old life without delay. Gone is her dull administrative job, her mousy wardrobe, her downer of a roommate. She will live as a woman of leisure, devoted to beauty, creativity, expression, and love. Once installed in her new quarters, Rachel plants a garden, takes up writing, and impresses everyone she meets with her extraordinary optimism. But as Rachel sings and jokes the days away, her new neighbors begin to wonder if she might be taking her transformation just a bit too far.In Wish Her Safe at Home, Stephen Benatar finds humor and horror in the shifting region between elation and mania. His heroine could be the next-door neighbor of the Beales of Grey Gardens or a sister to Jane Gardam's oddball protagonists, but she has an ebullient charm all her own.

The bestselling Turkish classic of love and longing in a changing world, available in English for the first time.'It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never expected.' A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1920s Berlin. The city's crowded streets, thriving arts scene, passionate politics and seedy cabarets provide the backdrop for a chance meeting with a woman, which will haunt him for the rest of his life. Emotionally powerful, intensely atmospheric and touchingly profound, Madonna in a Fur Coat is an unforgettable novel about new beginnings and the unfathomable nature of the human soul.'Passionate but clear . . . Ali's success [is in ] his ability to describe the emergence of a feeling, seemingly straightforward from the outside but swinging back and forth between opposite extremes at its core, revealing the tensions that accompanies such rise and fall.' Atilla Özkirimli, writer and literary historian

An intensely moving, lyrical and often funny novel about a family whose story of migration from Kenya and India to England is told over three separate days, across six decades. Bedi and Sushma’s marriage is arranged. When they first meet, they stumble through a faltering conversation about happiness and hope and agree to go in search of these things together. But even after their children Selena, Tara and Rohan are grown up and have their own families, Bedi and Sushma are still searching. Years later, the siblings attempt to navigate life without their parents. As they travel to the Ganges to unite their father’s ashes with the opaque water, it becomes clear that each of them has inherited the same desire to understand what makes a life happy, the same confusion about this question and the same enduring hope. A Person Is A Prayer plumbs the depths of the spaces between family members and the silence which rushes in like a flood when communication deteriorates. It is about how short a life is and how the choices we make can ripple down generations.

TEMAN SAYA MENGHILANG. Jika Anda memiliki informasi, mohon hubungi saya. Teman saya adalah editor baru yang sempat memegang proyek untuk edisi khusus sebuah majalah okultisme. Karena tugas tersebut, ia mengumpulkan dokumen dan materi dari berbagai sumber hingga akhirnya menyadari keanehan yang tersembunyi di suatu tempat di wilayah Kinki …. Buku ini merangkum berbagai tulisan dari sejumlah media yang ia dan saya kumpulkan. Sebagian besar dari tulisan di dalamnya memiliki keterkaitan dengan “suatu tempat” di wilayah Kinki. Oleh karena itu, saya butuh bantuan. Jika Anda memiliki informasi, mohon hubungi saya.

Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas’ epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s. Robin Buss’s lively English translation is complete and unabridged, and remains faithful to the style of Dumas’s original. This edition includes an introduction, explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading.

Depresi adalah penyakit yang sangat mengganggu, bahkan dapat memunculkan keinginan untuk mengakhiri hidup bagi yang mengalaminya. Di tengah pergulatan orang dengan depresi, banyak stigma yang melabeli sehingga mereka kesulitan untuk mendapatkan pertolongan. Regis, sebagai salah satu penyintas depresi dan akademisi psikologi, akan mengungkap apa itu depresi dan mengapa depresi rentan dialami manusia abad ini. Buku Loving the Wounded Soul membahas depresi secara komprehensif, mulai dari aspek klinis dan budaya, faktor internal dan eksternal, serta higher meaning dari kehadiran depresi itu sendiri. Tak hanya menjadi pedoman bagi orang dengan depresi, buku ini juga penting bagi pendamping dan siapa saja yang ingin memahami kompleksitas jiwa sekaligus menemukan makna sejati kehidupan.

In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed. The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony of the massacre. From Dong-ho's best friend who meets his own fateful end; to an editor struggling against censorship; to a prisoner and a factory worker, each suffering from traumatic memories; and to Dong-ho's own grief-stricken mother; and through their collective heartbreak and acts of hope is the tale of a brutalized people in search of a voice. An award-winning, controversial bestseller, Human Acts is a timeless, pointillist portrait of an historic event with reverberations still being felt today, by turns tracing the harsh reality of oppression and the resounding, extraordinary poetry of humanity.

The multimillion-copy bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about the importance of slowing down in our fast-paced world, by the Buddhist author of  Love for Imperfect Things “Wise advice on how to reflect and slow down.” — Elle Is it the world that’s busy, or is it my mind? The world moves fast, but that doesn’t mean we have to. This bestselling mindfulness guide by Haemin Sunim (which means “spontaneous wisdom”), a renowned Buddhist meditation teacher born in Korea and educated in the United States, illuminates a path to inner peace and balance amid the overwhelming demands of everyday life. By offering guideposts to well-being and happiness in eight areas—including relationships, love, and spirituality—Haemin Sunim emphasizes the importance of forging a deeper connection with others and being compassionate and forgiving toward ourselves. The more than twenty full-color illustrations that accompany his teachings serve as calming visual interludes, encouraging us to notice that when you slow down, the world slows down with you.

Twenty-Four Eyes tracks the growth of twelve innocent children from childhood to adulthood through their relationship with a young school teacher. The naivetT of youth and the harsh reality of war-torn Japan clash in this honest coming-of-age story.

“Berbuatlah sedikit dosa, Jamal,” kata Sato Reang kepada satu kawan sekelasnya. Jamal anak yang saleh, selalu sembahyang lima kali sehari, juga rajin mengaji. “Pahalamu sudah banyak. Bertumpuk-tumpuk. Tak akan habis dikurangi timbangan dosamu.” Ini kisah Sato Reang. Kadang ia demikian intim dengan dirinya, sehingga ini merupakan cerita tentang aku, tapi kali lain ia tercerabut, dan ini menjadi kisah tentang Sato Reang. Isi kepalanya riuh dan berisik, terutama sejak ia berumur tujuh tahun, ketika sang ayah berkata kepadanya, “Sudah saatnya kau menjadi anak saleh.”

Pada lanskap yang sureal, Margio adalah bocah yang menggiring babi ke dalam perangkap. Namun di sore ketika seharusnya rehat menanti musim perburuan, ia terperosok dalam tragedi pembunuhan paling brutal. Di balik motif-motif yang berhamburan, antara cinta dan pengkhianatan, rasa takut dan berahi, bunga dan darah, ia menyangkal dengan tandas. “Bukan aku yang melakukannya,” ia berkata dan melanjutkan, “Ada harimau di dalam tubuhku.”