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- Location(s): Somalia, Banda Aceh
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
January 2005: Nick Stone is in tsunami hit Banda Aceh on a job to retrieve incriminating evidence of an oil deal. When looters arrive a fight breaks out and a man, Mong, is killed. Nick makes a promise to...
- Location(s): Java, Sumatra
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
A novel inspired by a true story (English Edition) Synopsis: Alif had never set foot outside of West Sumatra. He passed his childhood days searching for fallen durian fruit in the jungle, playing soccer on rice paddies, and swimming...
- Location(s): Sumatra
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1940-45
India, 1940. When Nadine learns that the Indian woman she thought her nanny is, in fact, her mother, she rebels against her English father and he arranges for her to be wed to an Australian merchant many years older....
- 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): Java, Malaysia (Malaya), Singapore, Sumatra
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
Two audacious women; one remarkable man … When Raffles sets sail from the cold, damp confines of Georgian London to make his name and fortune in the tropics, he takes with him his new wife, Olivia, a raffish beauty...
- Location(s): Bangka Island, Kuala Lipis, Penang, Singapore, Sumatra
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s, 1940s 1960s
Malaysia 1962: Juliet Crosby, a plantation owner’s wife, has lived a reclusive life on her Malaysian rubber plantation since the Second World War robbed her of everyone she loved. The sudden appearance of a young woman from Indonesia disrupts...
- Location(s): Banda Aceh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
One year after the Indian Ocean tsunami, Angela finds herself flying into the devastated region of Banda Aceh as a researcher for the UN. Enthusiastic and committed, the young American woman arrives at a place swarming with young aid...
- Location(s): Sumatra
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
After caring for his mother in her last days, Alex has gone off round the world – with no plan other than to travel and maybe recapture some of his lost youth. Beginning his travels in Indonesia, the idea...
- Location(s): Sumatra
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1950s
Set in Sumatra in the 1950s, Jaipong Dancer is a story of lost innocence and complex moral dilemmas. It follows the journey of Yahyu, a young Javanese dancer, who runs away from a forced marriage and becomes unwittingly involved...
- Location(s): Sumatra
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Saman is a story filtered through the lives of its feisty female protagonists and the enigmatic “hero” Saman. It is at once an exposé of the oppression of plantation workers in South Sumatra, a lyrical quest to understand the...
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