The Rainbow Troops
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The Rainbow Troops
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Author : Andrea Hirata
language : en
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
Release Date : 2013-02-05
The Rainbow Troops written by Andrea Hirata and has been published by Sarah Crichton Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-05 with Fiction categories.
Published in Indonesia in 2005, The Rainbow Troops, Andrea Hirata's closely autobiographical debut novel, sold more than five million copies, shattering records. Now it promises to captivate audiences around the globe. Ikal is a student at the poorest village school on the Indonesian island of Belitong, where graduating from sixth grade is considered a remarkable achievement. His school is under constant threat of closure. In fact, Ikal and his friends—a group nicknamed the Rainbow Troops—face threats from every angle: skeptical government officials, greedy corporations hardly distinguishable from the colonialism they've replaced, deepening poverty and crumbling infrastructure, and their own low self-confidence. But the students also have hope, which comes in the form of two extraordinary teachers, and Ikal's education in and out of the classroom is an uplifting one. We root for him and his friends as they defy the island's powerful tin mine officials. We meet his first love, the unseen girl who sells chalk from behind a shop screen, whose pretty hands capture Ikal's heart. We cheer for Lintang, the class's barefoot math genius, as he bests the students of the mining corporation's school in an academic challenge. Above all, we gain an intimate acquaintance with the customs and people of the world's largest Muslim society. This is classic storytelling in the spirit of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner: an engrossing depiction of a milieu we have never encountered before, bursting with charm and verve.
Rainbow Troops Mandarin Edition
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Author : Andrea Hirata
language : zh-CN
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-02-25
Rainbow Troops Mandarin Edition written by Andrea Hirata and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-25 with Fiction categories.
《天虹战队小学》 Ikal is a student at the poorest village school, which is under constant threat of closure. Ikal and his friends—a group nicknamed the Rainbow Troops—face threats from every angle: skeptical government officials, greedy corporations hardly distinguishable from the colonialism they’ve replaced, deepening poverty and crumbling infrastructure, and their own low self-confidence.But the students also have hope. 《天虹战队小学》讲述了一个励志故事：在南太平洋上，有专为穷人而建的学校，条件简陋，资源匮乏，破洞比砖瓦还多。下雨天，老师要撑着香蕉叶上课，校长要卖菜为学生买课本，天才学生每天得游过鳄鱼栖息地上学，最有艺术细胞的孩子用零成本打造狂欢节演出……但他们的老师，拒绝了“前途美好”的工作，到这里教书。没有工资，靠做针线活赚取生活费。孩子们和老师一起，为了理想向命运宣战，亲身践行那句古老的格言：“那些没把你击垮的，最终只会让你更强大。”
The Rainbow Troops
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Author : Andrea Hirata
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013
The Rainbow Troops written by Andrea Hirata and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Billiton Island (Indonesia) categories.
The Last Brother
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Author : Nathacha Appanah
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-02-03
The Last Brother written by Nathacha Appanah and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-03 with Fiction categories.
In the remote forests of Mauritius, young Raj is almost oblivious of the Second World War raging beyond his tiny exotic island. With only his mother for company while his father works as a prison guard, solitary ever since his brothers died years ago, Raj thinks only of making friends. One day, the far-away world comes to Mauritius, and Raj meets David, a Jew exiled from his home in Europe and imprisoned in the camp where Raj's father works. David becomes the friend that he has always longed for, a brother to replace those he has lost. Raj knows that he must help David to escape. As they flee through sub-tropical landscapes and devastating storms, the boys battle hunger and malaria - and forge a friendship only death can destroy. The Last Brother is a powerful, poetic novel that sheds new light on a little-explored aspect of 20th-century history.
Saman
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Author : Ayu Utami
language : en
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Release Date : 2005
Saman written by Ayu Utami and has been published by Equinox Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Indonesian fiction categories.
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 place of religion and spirituality in contemporary lives, a playful exploration of female sexuality and a story about love in all its guises, while touching on all of Indonesia's taboos: extramarital sex, political repression and the relationship between Christians and Muslims. Saman has taken the Indonesian literary world by storm and sold over 100,000 copies in the Indonesian language, and is now available for the first time in English. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ayu Utami was born in Bogor, grew up in Jakarta and obtained her bachelor degree in Literature Studies from University of Indonesia. She worked as a journalist for Matra, Forum Keadilan, and D&R. Not long after the New Order regime closed Tempo, Editor, and Detik, she participated in the founding of Indonesia's Alliance of Independent Journalists to protest the closure of those three weeklys. Currently she is working for the cultural journal Kalam, and at Teater Utan Kayu. Saman was awarded the Prince Claus Award in the year 2000.
Indonesia Etc Exploring The Improbable Nation
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Author : Elizabeth Pisani
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2014-06-23
Indonesia Etc Exploring The Improbable Nation written by Elizabeth Pisani and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-23 with Travel categories.
Contains 12 videos, 22 slideshows, 39 stand-alone photographs, 2 audio recordings, 11 archival documents, 12 maps, 13 illustrations, 37 hand-drawn icons. Indonesia is one of the most compelling countries on earth; it offers unexpected adventures that range from taking tea with a corpse or a sultan to negotiating crowds of thugs dressed as Islamists protesting against pop star Lady Gaga. Indonesia Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation has been celebrated by The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, and many other publications as a lively and deeply insightful account of the country’s complexities, but many readers have yearned for illustrations; Indonesia is also visually compelling. This enhanced edition is the answer: it includes videos, slide shows, and archival material collected by the author during her 22,000-kilometer trek around the country in 2012 as well as old letters from generals and rebels harvested from the archives she has kept in her twenty-five-year association with the country. The videos, edited and voiced by Elizabeth Pisani herself, provide an extra insight into the things she found most striking or curious. You don’t need to be online to access any of the content, and the analog-look design ensures that the multimedia materials never get in the way of a good, old-fashioned read. This is a very large file (200 MB), and it works best on an iPad.
If I Can T Have You
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Author : Charlotte Levin
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2020-07-09
If I Can T Have You written by Charlotte Levin and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-09 with Fiction categories.
'I implore you to read (or listen to) it. It's so many things - dark, sweet, odd, moving, credible, tender, beautifully written & at times funny' - Marian Keyes, author of Again, Rachel 'One of the best books I’ve ever read' – Ruth Jones _______________________________________ If I Can't Have You by Charlotte Levin is an all-consuming novel about loneliness, obsession and how far we go for the ones we love. After fleeing Manchester for London, Constance Little attempts to put past tragedies behind her and make a fresh start. When she embarks on a relationship with the new doctor at the medical practice where she works, she’s convinced she’s finally found the love and security she craves. Then he ends it. But if life has taught her anything, it’s that if you love someone, you should never let them go. That's why for Constance Little, her obsession is only just beginning . . . _______________________________________ 'An exceptionally raw and visceral and painfully funny novel' – Emma Flint, author of Little Deaths 'Brilliant. A perfect and completely terrifying depiction of heartbreak and obsession' – Sarah Powell 'A blackly comic but heartfelt story of love and loneliness, with an endearing and damaged heroine' – Sunday Mirror 'A darkly comic and beautifully written debut novel’ – Woman ‘Blackly comic, heartrendingly sad – a brilliant debut novel’ – Best 'Compulsively readable and darkly funny with pin-sharp characterisation’ – Laura Marshall, author of Friend Request
Apple And Knife
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Author : Intan Paramaditha
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2018-12-06
Apple And Knife written by Intan Paramaditha and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-06 with Fiction categories.
A dazzling, provocative debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, putting fierce female characters centre stage in brilliantly funny and sharp twists on fairy tale. ‘Dark, subversive... Here are fairy tales and myths reworked with a feminist bent’ Tatler Inspired by horror fiction, myths and fairy tales, Apple and Knife is an unsettling ride that swerves into the supernatural to explore the dangers and power of occupying a female body in today’s world. These stories set in the Indonesian everyday – in corporate boardrooms, in shanty towns, on dangdut stages – reveal a soupy otherworld stewing just beneath the surface. This is subversive feminist horror at its best, where men and women alike are arbiters of fear, and where revenge is sometimes sweetest when delivered from the grave. Dark, humorous, and vividly realised, Apple and Knife brings together taboos, inversions, sex and death in a heady, intoxicating mix.
Hawaii End Of The Rainbow
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Author : Kazuo Miyamoto
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 2011-12-20
Hawaii End Of The Rainbow written by Kazuo Miyamoto and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-20 with Fiction categories.
This is the story of the Japanese who immigrated to Hawaii around the turn of the present century, worked as forced laborers on the sugar plantations, and afterwards remained in Hawaii to work as free men and to raise families. It is the story also of their children, born and raised in Hawaii, and who, during World War II, won fame and glory for themselves and their country on the bloody battlefields of Italy and southern Europe. But more than all of this, it is the story of the fate of the original immigrants during World War II. Rounded up by a panic-stricken American Government after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, these people were sent to the mainland to spend the war years being confined in one refugee camp after another, all while their sons were winning fame as American combat troops. And finally, it is the story of these elderly people who, at the end of the war, became free men once again and were allowed to return to their beloved Hawaii to live out their lives in peace.
The Ten Thousand Things
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Author : Maria Dermout
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2014-11-25
The Ten Thousand Things written by Maria Dermout and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-25 with Fiction categories.
In Wild, Cheryl Strayed writes of The Ten Thousand Things: "Each of Dermoût’s sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off land that felt to me like the blood of all the places I used to love.” And it's true, The Ten Thousand Things is at once novel of shimmering strangeness—and familiarity. It is the story of Felicia, who returns with her baby son from Holland to the Spice Islands of Indonesia, to the house and garden that were her birthplace, over which her powerful grandmother still presides. There Felicia finds herself wedded to an uncanny and dangerous world, full of mystery and violence, where objects tell tales, the dead come and go, and the past is as potent as the present. First published in Holland in 1955, Maria Dermoût's novel was immediately recognized as a magical work, like nothing else Dutch—or European—literature had seen before. The Ten Thousand Things is an entranced vision of a far-off place that is as convincingly real and intimate as it is exotic, a book that is at once a lament and an ecstatic ode to nature and life.