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Set in Jakarta during the Indonesian revolution, A Road With No End asks the question, "What must we do to free ourselves from fear?" The novel's two principal characters, Isa and Hazil, are put to the test by the times they are living through.

Between 1983 and 1985, a series of extrajudicial executions of criminals took place throughout Indonesia in which bodies were found shot and left in public places. The killings, later admitted to be a government effort to control crime, terrified the unsuspecting public. Three of the stories in this collection are related to this confusing time.

The subject of Toeti Heraty's poetry ranges from human encounters in an age of conceit to the confessions of an ever-restless soul. Many of Heraty's poems give voice to the emotional struggles and disappointments of women. They show a clear feminist influence; yet their method of confronting the patriarchy is not always direct.

Tells the story of Monang, a handsome but wayward Batak man, and Raumanen, a young Minahasa woman who, though educated and intelligent, is also a "soft touch" when it comes to love. As is deftly revealed in this novel, even in modern day Indonesia, matters of religion and ethnicity can greatly affect the course of a couple's relationship.

Tells the story of a young woman from a rural area who comes to the city of Yogyakarta, works as a maid for an aristocratic family, gets pregnant by the family son, has his child, then returns to work for them. As she tells her tale, Pariyem muses on eroticism, Javanese customs, and social change.

In Arab circles in the Dutch East Indies in the 1930s, plays were staged not only to entertain but also to educate and to further the emancipation of the traditionally oriented Arab minority. Some plays were well received, others evoked protests. Fatimah was one of the plays which stirred up commotion, inciting riots throughout Java.

Avianti's sensibility as an architect is evident in her writing, with all the features and spaces of the modern urban landscape. In her landscapes, residents range from single women, housewives, children, prostitutes, to adulterers and jetsetters at a swingers' party. The city is a place of little concern for its inhabitants.

Few Indonesian essayists can compete with Nirwan Arsuka in his ability to pull together different strands of thought, periods of history, and fields of knowledge in a cohesive unit that is easy-to-read. Nirwan exercises a remarkably dexterous hand when it comes to bringing characters from the distant past back to life.

The book's title, Ars Poetica, clues you in: the essays herein constitute a reflection on the art of poetry. With their lyrical language, Hasif's essays are practically poems in disguise. Hasif writes as if in conversation with a friend for whom there is no need to lecture or show-off his knowledge.

The stories in Eyewitness both unsettle the mind and pull the heartstrings. With their strange, unnerving style, the stories also represent one brave author's refusal to forget. ""When journalism is gagged,"" the author once said, ""literature must speak.""

In a Gus tf Sakai story, nothing is as it seems. The unexpected is always happening. Supernatural events occur in ordinary settings, turning lives and reality on end. Gus tf Sakai's esoteric tales range across the myriad cultures of the Indonesian archipelago, crossing time and space. They lure the reader into their mystery and reveal the author's deep sense of humanity.

In the early 1910s, Semaoen was sentenced to prison for sedition by the Dutch colonial government. The Story of Kadirun, a semi-autobiographical novel, flashes a spotlight on the unjust treatment towards indigenous people and gives an honest and comprehensive insight into the situation of the country at the time.

A landmark novel, The Weaverbirds is a tale of physical and spiritual struggles. The story spans from the formative days of Indonesia's independence to Indonesia's oil crisis in the mid 1970s.

A remarkable fictional account of the September 30th Movement's impact on people's lives. This ""movement"" led to the murder of a million or more presumed ""Communists"" and the imprisonment of another tens of thousands of people. Although the tumultuous events of 1965 envelop Home's background, this is not a novel about ideology.

A coming-of-age tale, a tapestry of erotic and tragic liaisons, a dreamscape of nightmare and wonders, the novel Ceremony, is above all, a paean to the ceremony-rich life of the Benuaq Dayak people of Kalimantan. This post-modern novel took the Indonesian literary scene by storm when it won the Jakarta Arts Council's novel writing competition award in 1976. The author, relatively unknown when he received the award, went on to establish himself as one of Indonesia's major literary figures. After almost four decades, Ceremony retains its power to thrill, awe, and mystify readers.

Violence, money and melodrama are the volatile ingredients of The Rape of Sukreni. Written in the 1930s by AA Pandji Tisna, the novel was not published until 1947. It is considered an Indonesian classic, portraying Balinese-Hindu notions of karma with the impact of modern commerce on Balinese society as its main theme.