Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless violence, Tayo searches for another kind of comfort and resolution. Tayo's quest leads him back to the Indian past and its traditions, to beliefs about witchcraft and evil, and to the ancient stories of his people. The search itself becomes a ritual, a curative ceremony that defeats the most virulent of afflictions—despair.

Sejak kecil, Karla merasa diperlakukan tidak adil oleh ibunya yang ia anggap misterius. Namun tak ada seorang pun dalam keluarga yang membelanya. Inilah yang membuat Karla tak mempunyai pilihan selain menjauh dari keluarganya. Berpuluh tahun sesudahnya, barulah satu demi satu rahasia itu mulai terkuak baginya—bukan hanya rahasia yang menggelayuti keluarganya, tetapi juga banyak manusia lainnya. “Soe Tjen menceritakan kisah keluarga, terutama hubungan anak perempuan dan ibunya yang misterius, sekaligus membuka kisah yang lebih luas. Kita bisa melacak jejak tragedi negeri ini melalui kisah mereka yang tersembunyi, menguak kompleksitas dan kepahitan rasialisme, agama, bahkan kasta dalam masyarakat. Namun tak seperti novel-novel politik yang sibuk berteriak-teriak, ia tetap kisah manusia-manusia yang dipertalikan satu sama lain oleh kemanusiaan mereka—yang baik maupun biadab. Terakhir, saya menemukan sesuatu yang tak mungkin bisa dilakukan para penulis lelaki: kisah tentang rahim. Saya merasa dibawa untuk melihat, atau merasakan, sesuatu yang sangat perempuan.” — Eka Kurniawan, novelis, penulis Cantik Itu Luka “Novel Soe Tjen Marching merupakan salah satu narasi penting tentang bagaimana perempuan, begitu juga gerakannya, dihancurkan dengan keji oleh militerisme di Indonesia. Berlatar sejarah, dengan detail yang belum pernah diungkap selama ini.” — Martin Aleida, sastrawan, penulis Tanah Air yang Hilang “Novel ini adalah catatan tentang penindasan dan ketidakadilan yang tak terelakkan akibat identitas rasial, pilihan akan Tuhan, dan kepentingan politik. Pada akhirnya, kisah dalam novel ini kembali mengingatkan bahwa cara terbaik menghadapi segala luka dan trauma adalah mengingat dan mengisahkannya kembali dengan sepenuh kesadaran.” — Okky Madasari, novelis, penulis Entrok

He was the brother of “the Arab” killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus’s classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling’s memory, refuses to let him remain anonymous: he gives his brother a story and a name—Musa—and describes the events that led to Musa’s casual murder on a dazzlingly sunny beach. In a bar in Oran, night after night, he ruminates on his solitude, on his broken heart, on his anger with men desperate for a god, and on his disarray when faced with a country that has so disappointed him. A stranger among his own people, he wants to be granted, finally, the right to die. The Stranger is of course central to Daoud’s story, in which he both endorses and criticizes one of the most famous novels in the world. A worthy complement to its great predecessor, The Meursault Investigation is not only a profound meditation on Arab identity and the disastrous effects of colonialism in Algeria, but also a stunning work of literature in its own right, told in a unique and affecting voice.

Published in 1942 by French author Albert Camus, The Stranger has long been considered a classic of twentieth-century literature. Le Monde ranks it as number one on its "100 Books of the Century" list. Through this story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."

A traditional American woman, a beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of raw milk and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of 1805—where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in this sensational debut novel. My name was Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive. Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle. Her charming farmhouse is rustic, her husband a handsome cowboy, her six children each more delightful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers behind the scenes, her kitchen hiding industrial-grade fridges and ovens, her husband the Republican equivalent of a Kennedy? What Natalie’s followers—all 8 million of them—don’t know won’t hurt them. And The Angry Women? The privileged, Ivy League, coastal elite haters who call her an antifeminist iconoclast? They’re sick with jealousy. Because Natalie isn’t simply living the good life, she’s living the ideal—and just so happens to be building an empire from it. Until one morning she wakes up in a life that isn’t hers. Her home, her husband, her children—they’re all familiar, but something’s off. Her kitchen is warmed by a sputtering fire rather than electricity, her children are dirty and strange, and her soft-handed husband is suddenly a competent farmer. Just yesterday Natalie was curating photos of homemade jam for her Instagram, and now she’s expected to haul firewood and handwash clothes until her fingers bleed. Has she become the unwitting star of a brutal reality show? Could it really be time travel? Is she being tested by God? By Satan? When Natalie suffers a brutal injury in the woods, she realizes two things: This is not her beautiful life, and she must escape by any means possible. A gripping, electrifying novel that is as darkly funny as it is frightening, Yesteryear is a gimlet-eyed look at tradition, fame, faith, and the grand performance of womanhood.