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- Location(s): Bali
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern looking back
Earth Dance, the story of four generations of Balinese women, centers on conflicts that arise between the demands of caste and personal desires. Narrated by Ida Ayu Telaga, a Balinese woman in her thirties, the novel shows Balinese women-as...
- Location(s): Sydney, Indonesia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
Nicholas Duncan is a semi-retired shipping magnate who resides in idyllic Beautiful Bay in Indonesia, where he is known as the old patriarch of the islands. He is grieving the loss of his beautiful Eurasian wife, Anna, and is...
- Location(s): Washington DC, Indonesia, Lake Winnipesaukee
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): 1984~1985 (told through flashbacks) and December 2017
It’s December 2017 and consultant Nick Harmon is screwed. When he finds his ex-flame murdered the night before a reunion, police suspect he’s the long-hibernating Surf Club Killer. Nick has his own theory too: that Adnan Sulaiman, the event’s...
Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere
- Location(s): Japan, Australia, Bali, China, Fiji, Mexico, Spain, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Current
Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is a collection of short fiction fifteen stories high, nine countries wide, and peopled with wily, quick-witted, dim-witted, hapless, helpless, strong and gentle characters. These are tales about people with...
- Location(s): Indonesia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1965 - 1998
“An epic saga of families and friends entangled in the cruel snare of history” (Time Magazine) Home examines the tragedy of political exiles during Suharto’s regime (1965-1998) forced out of Indonesia after the 1965 massacre of presumed leftists and...
- Location(s): Sumatra
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
From the vast island of Sumatra, Benedict Allen brings back the strangest of travellers’ tales concerning black-maned ape-men as Theodore Hull – octogenarian survivor of Japanese labour camps – entices him onto the trail of the Gugu. A tangle...
- Location(s): Bali
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
Beyond the Bali known from idyllic images of Hollywood movies and five-star resort holidays are the secret lives of men and women who flock to the island from around the world in search of new beginnings. Not all find...
- Location(s): Java
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Pramoedya Ananta Toer is Indonesia’s most celebrated writer, with over thirty works of fiction translated into over thirty languages, and the recipient of many major international awards, including the grand prize in the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize competition, Japan’s...
- Location(s): Jakarta (Batavia)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Prowling the seedy red-light districts, the underground club circuit and the house parties of wealthy Indonesian society, Moammar Emka offers a unique glimpse into the underbelly of modern, urban Jakarta. Jakarta Undercover features: * sex-for-sale in chauffeur-driven SUVs *...
- Location(s): East Timor (Timor-Leste), Jakarta (Batavia)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
In Jakarta’s gleaming center a man and a woman watch each other from adjoining skyscrapers. The man, a journalist, has on his desk reports he doesn’t dare publish of a massacre in East Timor. He contemplates the demands of...
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