In the Small Hours of the Night, a collection of 24 Sundanese short stories, is the first collect...

To the Contrary contains seventeen of A.A. Navis's most provocative and engaging stories. These r...

Subagio Sastrowardoyo (1 February 1924 - 18 July 1995) was a poet, short-story writer, essayist, ...

Between 1983-1985, a series of extrajudicial executions of criminals took place throughout Indone...

Heru Joni Putra, the young Minangkabau poet who has made a name for himself as an enfant terrible...

In The Anatomy of Travel, the distinctiveness of Gerson Poyk's writing can be seen in the way he ...

Spaces is an invitation to reflect on the meaning of life, a healing balm on the wounds of civili...

Lombok is now most well-known in the West as the site of a disastrous earthquake, which, in late ...

Viewed by literary critics as Kuntowijoyo's seminal work, Sermon of the Mount is the story of one...

In Arab circles in the Dutch East Indies in the 1930s, plays were staged not only to entertain bu...

Museum of Pure Desire contains choice examples of contemporary Indonesian poetry whose richness d...

The characters in Linda Christanty's stories are placed in situations that force them to battle t...

Previous edition: Sydney, NSW, Australia: ETT Imprint, 1995.

The subject of Toeti Heraty's poetry ranges from human encounters in an age of conceit to the con...

This collection of short stories portray quite melancholy and devastating events in which Cyntha'...

Clara Ng's stories seem calm on the surface but they are liberally sprinkled with black humor and...

Intan Paramaditha's stories are infused with gothic and horror themes. Depicted with a feminine s...

Pariyem's Confession is a long poem written in the first person--in the voice of a woman. It tell...

Joko Pinurbo's poetry is immediately recognizable for its simple language, accessibility, and the...

Zeffry Alkatiri's collection of poems is a romp through history in verse. These poems are flashes...

The Wedding Night and Other Stories

The poetry of Hanna Fransisca is heavily-laden with Chinese cultural metaphors. The pleasures of ...

Few Indonesian essayists can compete with Nirwan Arsuka in his ability to pull together different...

Azhari's reimagined stories of Aceh in the 17th century encompass a garden of extraordinary beaut...

A Student Named Hijo has been recognized for depicting a new Indonesian youth culture that has ad...

Abidah's work gives a voice to women. Women who are victims of polygamy, women who suffer domesti...

Taufik Ikram Jamil's poetry is filled with references to the geography, history and classic Malay...

Arrested as a leftist-activist in 1966, Putu Oka Sukanta was imprisoned until 1976. In The Starli...

Cok Sawitri's stories shed light on the lives of modern Balinese people and the various challenge...

Dinar Rahayu invites the reader into alien, experiential settings that explore issues of gender, ...

History fascinates in the hands of M. Iksaka Banu. The stories in this collection feature well-cr...

Acep Zamzam Noor's poems wrap silence around images of death and failure. Beauty and, of course, ...

The book's title, Ars Poetica, clues you in: the essays herein constitute a reflection on the art...

Set in a small hotel in Yogyakarta, this play is a tale of thwarted aspirations and the mundane r...

I La Galigo, the vast Bugis epic myth, is one of the most voluminous works in world literature. S...

Nirwan Dewant's poems invite readers to explore a world which, at a glance, might seem familiar y...

Ben Sohib's stories, often set in Jakarta and with their panoramic backdrop of urban Muslim life,...

Zen Hae's stories focus on Betawi people--the original inhabitants of Jakarta. His characters, of...

Raumanen, a prize-winning novel by Marianne Katoppo, tells the story of Monang, a handsome but wa...

Warih Wisatsana's poems often present an unusual scene, which invites the reader to question the ...

Outside of Indonesia, little is known about the country's writers and their works. Helping to cha...

What distinguished Mona Sylviana's writing, is her willingness to look at the dark side of life a...

Yusi Avianto Pareanom's fictional characters are inseparable from their environment and cultural ...

Many of Gunawan Maryanto's stories are reinterpretations of Javanese literary texts which themsel...

These neatly-constructed post-modern tales demonstrate the author's skill at deception. Even in s...

Avianti's sensibility as an architect is evident in her writing, with all the features and spaces...

Excerpts from the Novel Arrived Before Departing

Sunlie invites the reader into sometimes, quite a surreal microcosm of his Chinese-Indonesian her...