Blogs in January 2022

What Is Written on the Tongue 22nd January 2022

For readers of Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, a transportive historical novel about finding morality in the throes of war and colonization Released from Nazi forced labor as World...

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Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company 12th February 2020

Max Havelaar – a Dutch civil servant in Java – burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is...

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It’s Not an All Night Fair 12th February 2020

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...

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The Land of Five Towers 11th February 2020

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...

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Ashes in a Coconut 3rd December 2019

New York City fashion designer Laura Harrison sets aside her career and accompanies her banker husband Jack to Indonesia to save her marriage. En route to Jakarta, they stopover in Bali where she experiences the mysticism and magic of...

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