Flybird's Nest

  Marni, perempuan Jawa buta huruf yang masih memuja leluhur. Melalui sesajen dia menemukan dewa-dewanya, memanjatkan harapannya. Tak pernah dia mengenal Tuhan yang datang dari negeri nun jauh di sana. Dengan caranya sendiri dia mempertahankan hidup. Menukar keringat dengan sepeser demi sepeser uang. Adakah yang salah selama dia tidak mencuri, menipu, atau membunuh? Rahayu, anak Marni. Generasi baru yang dibentuk oleh sekolah dan berbagai kemudahan hidup. Pemeluk agama Tuhan yang taat. Penjunjung akal sehat. Berdiri tegak melawan leluhur, sekalipun ibu kandungnya sendiri. Adakah yang salah jika mereka berbeda? Marni dan Rahayu, dua orang yang terikat darah namun menjadi orang asing bagi satu sama lain selama bertahun-tahun. Bagi Marni, Rahayu adalah manusia tak punya jiwa. Bagi Rahayu, Marni adalah pendosa. Keduanya hidup dalam pemikiran masing-masing tanpa pernah ada titik temu. Lalu bunyi sepatu-sepatu tinggi itu, yang senantiasa mengganggu dan merusak jiwa. Mereka menjadi pengua...

  All of them are fleeing something. Growing up without a father, Hana’s tired of the pity in her classmates’ eyes, and finds a flashier mother figure in Kimiko. Kimiko is older than Hana's mother but seems much younger, chatting easily about school and boys and wanting a better life. Fate throws them together with two more young women—bruised but not broken by life. Together the four set out to remake their lives, fighting predatory lenders, organized criminals, and plain bad luck as they open a bar called Lemon. Keeping the business going, and trying to take care of each other, forms the core of this enrapturing novel. It is a story of startling reversals and vivid portraits of the matriarchy of Tokyo nightlife and its adjacent criminal underclasses. From the bar owners to the aging hostesses to the young street touts coaxing people off the street to places like Lemon, everyone wants a chance at renewal, but can everyone get it? **** Sisters in Yellow Author : Mieko Kawakami Publ...

  Di masa depan, perpustakaan tak ubahnya pekuburan prahistoris. Di sanalah kita bertemu dengan seorang gadis, dan sebelas buku yang menceritakan sejarah dengan cara masing-masing. Cerita dalam buku-buku itu sering terasa ganjil, kadang terasa begitu asing, kadang pula sebaliknya: terasa dekat, seperti kita tahu tentang apa sebetulnya cerita-cerita itu. Setiap buku menyajikan cerita yang sepenuhnya berlainan dari buku lain, tetapi kita–sebagaimana gadis itu–tahu bahwa ada satu hal yang menghubungkan sebelas buku itu. Selanjutnya, kita diajak tenggelam dalam dunia di luar buku yang tak kalah ganjil, asing, dan dekat. *** Tiga dalam Kayu Penulis : Ziggy Zezsyazeoviennazabrizkie Tahun penerbitan : 2022 Bahasa : Indonesia Halaman : 168 Genre : Fiksi, Fantasi, Kumpulan Cerita Rekomendasi Usia : 18+  CW : Explicit detail, Gory, minor LGBTQ Sebelum  memulai, aku ingin menyampaikan bahwa tulisan ini murni pengalaman membaca, bukan review atau kritik. What if I tell you, ...

*** Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it. So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: stay busy, work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon. The last one is silly and obviously metaphorical, but her aunt always told her that you needed at least one big dream to keep going. And for the last year, that plan has gone off without a hitch. Mostly. The love part is hard because she doesn’t want to get too close to anyone—she isn’t sure her heart can take it. And then she finds a strange man standing in the kitchen of her late aunt’s apartment. A man with kind eyes and a Southern drawl and a taste for lemon pies. The kind of man that, before it all, she would’ve fallen head-over-heels for. And she might again. Except, he exists in the past. Seven years ago, to be exact. And she, quite literally, lives seven years in his future. Her aunt always said the apartment was a pinch in time, a place whe...

  An ordinary housewife finds herself haunted by visions of a mushroom cloud and abruptly leaves her husband and son to travel alone to the city of Nagasaki, where she soon begins an affair with a young half-Russian, half-Japanese man. Inspired by Marguerite Duras’s screenplay for Hiroshima, Mon Amour, this novel is a further demonstration of Kashimada’s distinctive literary style and technique and her commitment to plumbing the depths of her characters’ psychology. Dealing with the travails and traumas of history, with gendered identity, with the tension between private and public selves, Love at Six Thousand Degrees is a distinctive and intriguing novel by one of Japan’s most unique contemporary authors. *** Love at Six Thousand Degrees  Author : Maki Kashimada Published Year : 2023 Language : English Pages : 128 Genre : Literary Fiction Age recommendation : 21+  TW : Suicide  This is the kind of book where you need to read the blurb to make sense of the story. S...

  Softcover version Our narrator understands good love stories - their secrets, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the rules. She was in her senior year of college when star students Sam and Yash swept her into an intoxicating world of academic fervour, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. Their lives became quickly intertwined - with friendship but also with unpredictable passions and the intimations of first love. Decades later, she is a successful writer, living a comfortable life with her husband and children, when a surprise visit brings the past crashing into the present, forcing her to confront the decisions and deceptions of her youth. **** Heart the Lover Author : Lily King First Published Year : 2025 Language : English Pages : 246 Genre : Literary Fiction, Coming of Age, Romance Age Recommendation : 17+ (minor sexual content) I was in the mood for reading a page-turner. Despite my long list of to-be-read books i...