Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago
By: Philip Bowring
3.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Nusantaria – often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' – is the world's largest archipelago an…
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1. Pachinko
By: Min Jin Lee
4.33
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealth… read more
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"A woman’s lot is to suffer."-Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
"No one is clean. Living makes you dirty."-Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
"Life makes you pay...everybody pays something"-Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
"Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge—it’s the only kind of power no one can take away from you."-Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
2. Mitos Peribumi Malas
By: Syed Hussein Alatas
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Citra tentang kemalasan golongan peribumi yang digembar-gemburkan oleh para penjajah tidak berasas,… read more
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3. A Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation
By: Tim Hannigan
4.13
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of the World's Largest Archipelago Indonesia is… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. The Glass Palace
By: Amitav Ghosh
3.77
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the sto… read more
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5. The Palace of Illusions
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A reimagining of the world-famous Indian epic, the Mahabharat--told from the point of view of an am… read more
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6. From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe
By: Alexandre Koyré
4.12
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a radical change occurred in the patterns and the fr… read more
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7. The World of Yesterday
By: Stefan Zweig , Harry Zohn
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expre… read more
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8. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more
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"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
9. Nusantara: Sejarah Indonesia
By: Samsudin Berlian , None
2.65
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
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10. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
By: Arundhati Roy
3.12
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Th… read more
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11. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more
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12. Indonesia, Etc: Exploring the Improbable Nation
By: Elizabeth Pisani
3.16
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
Declaring independence in 1945, Indonesia said it would "work out the details of the transfer of po… read more
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13. Bumi Manusia
By: Pramoedya Ananta Toer
4.42
Format: 535 pages, Paperback
Roman Tetralogi Buru mengambil latar belakang dan cikal bakal nation Indonesia di awal abad ke-20. … read more
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"Eropa gila sama dengan Pribumi gila."-Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Bumi Manusia
"Pelacur makhluk lemah tanpa pelindung."-Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Bumi Manusia
"Keindahannya ada dalam kenang-kenangan."-Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Bumi Manusia
"Yang berani mengalah terinjak-injak, Bunda."-Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Bumi Manusia
14. Pulang
By: Leila S. Chudori , None
4.30
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
Paris, Mei 1968. Ketika revolusi mahasiswa berkecamuk di Paris, Dimas Suryo seorang eksil poli… read more
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"Rumah adalah tempat di mana aku merasa bisa pulang. (Dimas Suryo)"-Leila S. Chudori, Pulang
"Benarkah angin tidak sedang mencoba menyentuh bibirnya yang begitu sempurna?"-Leila S. Chudori, Pulang
"Aku tak ingin berakhir seperti mereka, saling mencintai. Lantas kehilangan dan kini mereka hanya mengenang dan merenung dari jauh."-Leila S. Chudori, Pulang
"Dan bibirnya adalah sepotong puisi yang belum selesai. Aku yakin, hanya bibirku yang bisa menyelesaikannya menjadi sebuah puisi yang lengkap."-Leila S. Chudori, Pulang
15. Laut Bercerita
By: Leila S. Chudori
4.62
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Jakarta, Maret 1998 Di sebuah senja, di sebuah rumah susun di Jakarta, mahasiswa bernama Biru La… read more
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"Matilah engkau mati kau akan lahir berkali-kali..."-Leila S. Chudori, Laut Bercerita
"Rasa ingin tahu adalah kualitas terbaik dalam jurnalisme."-Leila S. Chudori, Laut Bercerita
"....jangan menganggap bahwa hidup adalah serangkaian kekalahan."-Leila S. Chudori, Laut Bercerita
"Peristiwa yang tak nyaman atau menyakitkan tidak perlu dihapus, tetapi harus diatasi."-Leila S. Chudori, Laut Bercerita
16. The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
By: Keigo Higashino
4.43
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
When three delinquents hole up in an abandoned general store after their most recent robbery, to th… read more
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"People who live with their head in the clouds deserve to hit the ground every once in a while."-Keigo Higashino, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
"Believe me. No matter how bad things are today, they’ll be far better tomorrow. — Namiya General Store"-Keigo Higashino, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
"Be a fighter. Give it everything you’ve got. Even a losing battle is worth fighting. Go out and make your mark."-Keigo Higashino, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
"It would destroy the very meaning of a family unit if everyone with their separate ways over fleeting feelings of anger or impatience."-Keigo Higashino, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
17. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
18. Milkman
By: Anna Burns
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attem… read more
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"how much I’d been thwarted into a carefully constructed nothingness by that man"-Anna Burns, Milkman
"It’s not about being happy,’ he said, which was, and still is, the saddest remark I’ve ever heard."-Anna Burns, Milkman
"also found the situation unworkable. Not just unworkable – ridiculous. Not just ridiculous – perturbing."-Anna Burns, Milkman
"even though it was weird to talk on the telephone. Only eight times, seven, maybe six, ever had I done so."-Anna Burns, Milkman
19. First Person Singular: Stories
By: Haruki Murakami
3.54
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
A riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Mura… read more
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"Hätte ich auf dem Jupiter umsteigen sollen?"-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
"It’s important in life to get used to losing."-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
"A circle that has many centers but no circumference"-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
"Nichts, was leicht zu haben ist, besitzt einen Wert."-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
20. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
21. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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22. Bangkok Wakes to Rain
By: Pitchaya Sudbanthad
3.60
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A house in Bangkok is the confluence of lives shaped by upheaval, memory, and the lure of home. A m… read more
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"In Thai, to say sorry was to ask for punishment that wouldn't ordinarily be meted out."-Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Bangkok Wakes to Rain
"Pig owes her much more than she could ever pay back. It had felt much less burdensome to feel like she would always be the one to so generously give."-Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Bangkok Wakes to Rain
23. Spinning Silver
By: Naomi Novik
4.19
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
Spinning Silver draws readers deeper into a glittering realm of fantasy, where the boundary between… read more
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"He is mine, too."-Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver
"Because my demon told me to"-Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver
"Four years! My heart was glad as birds."-Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver
"She was safe for another moment, one more moment, and all of life was only moments, after all."-Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver
24. Hari-Hari yang Mencurigakan
By: Dea Anugrah
3.76
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Kabar samar-samar tentang sebuah manuskrip buku puisi misterius oleh seorang penyair obskur Indones… read more
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25. Comrade Aeon’s Field Guide to Bangkok
By: Emma Larkin
3.88
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
In Bangkok, a plot of land behind a city slum resonates with the hopes, dreams and fears of the loc… read more
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26. Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago
By: Philip Bowring
3.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Nusantaria – often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' – is the world's largest archipelago an… read more
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