-Mati hidup dan susah senang dipegang oleh Allah S.W.T- Sebagai anak tani, itulah pegangan Lahuma dan keluarganya sejak zaman nenek moyang. Apa sahaja kurniaan ILAHI, mereka tetap menerima dengan penuh kesyukuran. Sawah bendang, padi dan nasi serta bencana alam begitu sinonim dalam hidup Lahuma sekeluarga. Meski dugaan sering melanda, namun mereka tetap mengharunginya dengan segenap tenaga yang ada. -Lahuma dijemput menghadap ILAHI- Hidup mesti diteruskan! Tugas Lahuma perlu dipikul oleh Jeha dan anak-anaknya. Mereka tidak harus mati kelaparan. sawah padi perlu menguning. Hujan lebat, banjir besar dan kedatangan ketam serta burung tiak yang menjahanamkan padi perlu ditentang. Berbekalkan doa dan usaha, mereka nekad... tiada apa yang dapat menghalang perjalanan hidup ini. Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan... jerit perih keluarga tani ini adalah kehendak Yang Maha Kuasa. Sebuah karya nostalgik Shahnon Ahmad yang membawa kita mendalami erti kasih sayang, kekuatan, kegigihan, ketabahan dan perjuangan.

HAMMAJANG | adjective. Definition: In a disorderly or chaotic state; messed up. Chiefly in predicative use, esp. in all hammajang. Etymology: A borrowing from Hawaiian Pidgin. Source: Oxford English Dictionary. Edie is done with crime. Eight years behind bars changes a person - costs them too much time with too many of the people who need them most. And it's all Angel's fault. She sold Edie out in what should have been the greatest moment of their lives. Instead, Edie was shipped off to the icy prison planet spinning far below the soaring skybridges and neon catacombs of Kepler space station - of home - to spend the best part of a decade alone. But then a chance for early parole appears out of nowhere and Edie steps into the pallid sunlight to find none other than Angel waiting - and she has an offer. One last job. One last deal. One last target. The trillionaire tech god they failed to bring down last time. There's just one thing Edie needs to do - trust Angel again - which also happens to be the last thing Edie wants to do. What could possibly go all hammajang about this plan? Ocean's 8 meets Blade Runner in this trail-blazing debut science fiction novel and swashbuckling love letter to Hawai'i about being forced to find a new home and striving to build a better one - unmissable for fans of Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir and Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo.

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is increasingly accepted as the norm. With a substantive new introduction on Freire's life and the remarkable impact of this book by writer and Freire confidant and authority Donaldo Macedo, this anniversary edition of Pedagogy of the Oppressed will inspire a new generation of educators, students, and general readers for years to come.

For readers of Han Kang and Sheila Heti, an atmospheric, melancholic novel about a successful sculptor who decides to commit suicide by artfully preparing and deliberately eating a lethal dish of blowfish. Blowfish is a postmodern novel in four parts, alternating between the respective stories of a female sculptor and a male architect. Death is the motif connecting these parallel lives. The sculptor’s grandmother killed herself by eating poisonous blowfish in front of her husband and child, while the architect’s elder brother leapt to his death from the fifth floor of an apartment building. Now, both protagonists are contemplating their own suicides. The sculptor and architect cross paths once in Seoul, and meet again in Tokyo, while the sculptor is learning to prepare a fatal serving of blowfish. The narrative loosely approximates a love story, but this is no romance in the normal sense. For the woman, the man is a pitstop on the road to her own suicide. For the man, the woman forestalls death and offers him a final chance. Through the conflicting impressions they have of one another, the characters look back on their lives; it is only the desire to create art that calls them back from death. Evoking the heterogeneous urban spaces of Seoul and Tokyo, Blowfish delves into the inner life of a woman contemplating her failures in love and art. Jo’s fierce will to write animates the novel; the lethal taste of blowfish, which one cannot help but eat even though one may die in doing so, approximates the inexorable pains of writing a novel.

This gripping insider’s account chronicles how and why a young woman in 1950s Algiers joined the armed wing of Algeria’s national liberation movement to combat her country’s French occupiers. When the movement’s leaders turned to Drif and her female colleagues to conduct attacks in retaliation for French aggression against the local population, they leapt at the chance. Their actions were later portrayed in Gillo Pontecorvo’s famed film The Battle of Algiers. When first published in French in 2013, this intimate memoir was met with great acclaim and no small amount of controversy. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand not only the anti-colonial struggles of the 20th century and their relevance today, but also the specific challenges that women often confronted (and overcame) in those movements.

Dari jendela terkuak yang menghadap jalan, Lili mengaut beribu pengalaman yang menerjah dari luar. Juga menghadam makna hidup dari isi rumah yang penuh sejarah. Cerita datuk yang teguh memaut tradisi, kisah nenek yang mengembara mengutip kematangan usia; semuanya mencantumkan keinginan Lili untuk mengetahui falsafah di sebalik jendela itu. MENELITI naskhah Jendela Menghadap Jalan, terbentang rentetan konflik yang ditebarkan di sana-sini lewat plot-plot yang bercapah. Meskipun penerokaan konflik nilai diteroka secara luas dan pelbagai namun pembaca dituntun secara cermat oleh jalur naratif tunggal bersama himpunan watak yang saling berjerait. Terdapat unsur-unsur kebetulan yang mengheret plot membongkar konflik-konflik tertentu misalnya melalui watak Lili, Geetha dan Danel. Mereka yang bertemu pada awalnya di dalam bas ketika sama-sama pulang ke kampung halaman telah sama-sama menggeluti permasalahan yang sama di kampung mereka. Antara konflik yang dipaparkan seperti pertembungan nilai tradisi dengan moden iaitu ilmu perubatan tradisional yang diamalkan oleh datuk Lili. Selain konflik anak-anak muda yang berdepan nilai-nilai moden, kebejatan sosial, keruntuhan akhlak, dan juga konflik generasi iaitu pertembungan nilai antara anak dengan ibu. Konflik dalam masyarakat desa yang berkaitan dengan soal sama ada untuk membina masjid atau sekadar kubah sahaja turut disisipkan. Konflik ini dibangunkan secara besar-besaran sehingga pembaca dapat menikmati satu subplot yang tersendiri yang terjerait sama dalam plot utama. Novel tempat kedua ini mengusulkan tafsiran yang terbuka kepada pembacanya dan menjadikannya karya yang menghargai intelektualiti. Menyelami suara batin golongan remaja melalui watak Lili dapat menjadi indeks psikologi sebagai petunjuk realiti gejolak dalam diri remaja dan sekali gua berguna kepada pihak-pihak tertentu. Sumber - Utusan Malaysia ______________________________ Novel ini telah memenangi tempat KEDUA Pertandingan Novel Remaja Hadiah Sastera Kumpulan Utusan (ExxonMobil) 2008 Pertama Kasih Nan Agung Sri Rahayu Mohd Yusop Kedua Jendela Menghadap Jalan Rohaini Matdarin Ketiga Meniti Jalan Hadapan Norziati Mohd Rosman

-Mati hidup dan susah senang dipegang oleh Allah S.W.T- Sebagai anak tani, itulah pegangan Lahuma dan keluarganya sejak zaman nenek moyang. Apa sahaja kurniaan ILAHI, mereka tetap menerima dengan penuh kesyukuran. Sawah bendang, padi dan nasi serta bencana alam begitu sinonim dalam hidup Lahuma sekeluarga. Meski dugaan sering melanda, namun mereka tetap mengharunginya dengan segenap tenaga yang ada. -Lahuma dijemput menghadap ILAHI- Hidup mesti diteruskan! Tugas Lahuma perlu dipikul oleh Jeha dan anak-anaknya. Mereka tidak harus mati kelaparan. sawah padi perlu menguning. Hujan lebat, banjir besar dan kedatangan ketam serta burung tiak yang menjahanamkan padi perlu ditentang. Berbekalkan doa dan usaha, mereka nekad... tiada apa yang dapat menghalang perjalanan hidup ini. Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan... jerit perih keluarga tani ini adalah kehendak Yang Maha Kuasa. Sebuah karya nostalgik Shahnon Ahmad yang membawa kita mendalami erti kasih sayang, kekuatan, kegigihan, ketabahan dan perjuangan.

For readers of Han Kang and Sheila Heti, an atmospheric, melancholic novel about a successful sculptor who decides to commit suicide by artfully preparing and deliberately eating a lethal dish of blowfish. Blowfish is a postmodern novel in four parts, alternating between the respective stories of a female sculptor and a male architect. Death is the motif connecting these parallel lives. The sculptor’s grandmother killed herself by eating poisonous blowfish in front of her husband and child, while the architect’s elder brother leapt to his death from the fifth floor of an apartment building. Now, both protagonists are contemplating their own suicides. The sculptor and architect cross paths once in Seoul, and meet again in Tokyo, while the sculptor is learning to prepare a fatal serving of blowfish. The narrative loosely approximates a love story, but this is no romance in the normal sense. For the woman, the man is a pitstop on the road to her own suicide. For the man, the woman forestalls death and offers him a final chance. Through the conflicting impressions they have of one another, the characters look back on their lives; it is only the desire to create art that calls them back from death. Evoking the heterogeneous urban spaces of Seoul and Tokyo, Blowfish delves into the inner life of a woman contemplating her failures in love and art. Jo’s fierce will to write animates the novel; the lethal taste of blowfish, which one cannot help but eat even though one may die in doing so, approximates the inexorable pains of writing a novel.

From her prison cell, Firdaus, sentenced to die for having killed a pimp in a Cairo street, tells of her life from village childhood to city prostitute. Society's retribution for her act of defiance - death - she welcomes as the only way she can finally be free.

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . . A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice? Duration: 11 hours 39 minutes.

Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race-car drivers, ghosts, and demons. In a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed. Family and caretakers drift in and out. Meanwhile, all the women who have lived and died in that house are waiting for her to join them. They are preparing to throw her a party.As day turns to night, four hundred years’ worth of stories unspool, and the house reverberates with raucous laughter, pungent feasts, and piercing cries of pleasure and pain. It all begins with Joana, Mas Clavell’s matriarch, who once longed for a husband—“a full man,” perhaps even “an heir with a patch of land and a roof over his head.” She summoned the devil to fulfill her wish and struck a a man in exchange for her soul. But when, on her wedding day, Joana discovered that her husband was missing a toe (eaten by wolves), she exploited a loophole in her agreement, heedless of what consequences might follow. I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness is an audacious and entrancing novel in which the lines between the dead and the living, past and present, story and history are blurred. In it, Irene Solà draws on oral tradition as well as art, literature, and fairy tales to tell a completely new kind of story.

A bestseller in Korea, a psychological thriller about loneliness and the dark truths we try to bury.In this tense, gripping novel by a rising star of Korean literature, Ogi has woken from a coma after causing a devastating car accident that took his wife’s life and left him paralyzed and badly disfigured. His caretaker is his mother-in-law, a widow grieving the loss of her only child. Ogi is neglected and left alone in his bed. His world shrinks to the room he lies in and his memories of his troubled relationship with his wife, a sensitive, intelligent woman who found all of her life goals thwarted except for one: cultivating the garden in front of their house. But soon Ogi notices his mother-in-law in the abandoned garden, uprooting what his wife had worked so hard to plant and obsessively digging larger and larger holes. When asked, she answers only that she is finishing what her daughter started.Evoking Herman Koch’s The Dinner and Stephen King’s Misery, award-winning author Hye-young Pyun’s The Hole is a superbly crafted and deeply unnerving novel about the horrors of isolation and neglect in all of its banal and brutal forms. As Ogi desperately searches for a way to escape, he discovers the difficult truth about his wife and the toll their life together took on her.

-Mati hidup dan susah senang dipegang oleh Allah S.W.T- Sebagai anak tani, itulah pegangan Lahuma dan keluarganya sejak zaman nenek moyang. Apa sahaja kurniaan ILAHI, mereka tetap menerima dengan penuh kesyukuran. Sawah bendang, padi dan nasi serta bencana alam begitu sinonim dalam hidup Lahuma sekeluarga. Meski dugaan sering melanda, namun mereka tetap mengharunginya dengan segenap tenaga yang ada. -Lahuma dijemput menghadap ILAHI- Hidup mesti diteruskan! Tugas Lahuma perlu dipikul oleh Jeha dan anak-anaknya. Mereka tidak harus mati kelaparan. sawah padi perlu menguning. Hujan lebat, banjir besar dan kedatangan ketam serta burung tiak yang menjahanamkan padi perlu ditentang. Berbekalkan doa dan usaha, mereka nekad... tiada apa yang dapat menghalang perjalanan hidup ini. Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan... jerit perih keluarga tani ini adalah kehendak Yang Maha Kuasa. Sebuah karya nostalgik Shahnon Ahmad yang membawa kita mendalami erti kasih sayang, kekuatan, kegigihan, ketabahan dan perjuangan.

Tsukiko is drinking alone in her local sake bar when by chance she meets one of her old high school teachers and, unable to remember his name, she falls back into her old habit of calling him 'Sensei'. After this first encounter, Tsukiko and Sensei continue to meet. Together, they share edamame beans, bottles of cold beer, and a trip to the mountains to eat wild mushrooms. As their friendship deepens, Tsukiko comes to realise that the solace she has found with Sensei might be something more.

An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them. From trips on private jets and encounters with world leaders to shocking accounts of misogyny and double standards behind the scenes, this searing memoir exposes both the personal and the political fallout when unfettered power and a rotten company culture take hold. In a gripping and often absurd narrative where a few people carelessly hold the world in their hands, this eye-opening memoir reveals what really goes on among the global elite. Sarah Wynn-Williams tells the wrenching but fun story of Facebook, mapping its rise from stumbling encounters with juntas to Mark Zuckerberg’s reaction when he learned of Facebook’s role in Trump’s election. She experiences the challenges and humiliations of working motherhood within a pressure cooker of a workplace, all while Sheryl Sandberg urges her and others to “lean in.” Careless People is a deeply personal account of why and how things have gone so horribly wrong in the past decade—told in a sharp, candid, and utterly disarming voice. A deep, unflinching look at the role that social media has assumed in our lives, Careless People reveals the truth about the leaders of Facebook: how the more power they grasp, the less responsible they become and the consequences this has for all of us.

In September 1913, Mieczysław Wojnicz, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in what is now western Poland. Every day, its residents gather in the dining room to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur, to obsess over money and status, and to discuss the great issues of the day: Will there be war? Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women inherently inferior? Meanwhile, disturbing things are beginning to happen in the guesthouse and its surroundings. As stories of shocking events in the nearby highlands reach the men, a sense of dread builds. Someone – or something – seems to be watching them and attempting to infiltrate their world. Little does Mieczysław realize, as he attempts to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target. A century after the publication of The Magic Mountain, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, blending horror story, comedy, folklore and feminist parable with brilliant storytelling.