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Showing posts with label Indonesia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indonesia. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Genderang Perang dari Wamena (1972) by Djokolelono: An Indonesian Children Fantasy #NovNov25

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🥁 I have unexpectedly found this treasure while idly browsing through Google Playbook titles. It's a children fantasy novella by an Ind...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2024

The Black Lake (Oeroeg) by Hella S. Haasse (1948) #WITMonth

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🖤 The Black Lake was first published anonymously in 1948 as Oeroeg . It was the Dutch author Hella Haasse's first novel, and was trans...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Cigarette Girl (2012) by Ratih Kumala #IndonesianLit

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🚬 I'm proud to say that Cigarette Girl is the best Indonesian historical fiction I've read so far. A highly entertaining story wit...
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Monday, May 8, 2023

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto: A Cozy Mystery

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" Vera Wong Zhuzhu, age sixty, is a pig, but she really should have been a rooster. We are, of course, referring to Chinese horoscopes....
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk (The Dancer) by Ahmad Tohari: An Indonesian Classic

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💃🏻 Srintil and Rasus, our protagonists, were born and grew up in a small village in Indonesia called Dukuh Paruk, which, geographically, ...
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Sunday, March 20, 2022

Orang-Orang Bloomington (People from Bloomington) by Budi Darma

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🔷️ Budi Darma is one of Indonesia's prominent modern writers. He graduated with an MA from Indiana University Bloomington i...
Monday, February 11, 2019

This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer (An Indonesian Clasic)

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Finally, I came to read this book which is considered one of the highest achievements in Indonesian literature. Set in the end of 19th...
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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Max Havelaar by Multatuli

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Multatuli is pseudonym of Eduard Douwes Dekker, a Dutch civil servant of The Netherlands during its colonialism in Indonesia (then Dutch ...