PENGAKUAN PARIYEM, Linus Suryadi AG

Judul/Title: Pengakuan Pariyem
Penulis/Author: Linus Suryadi AG
Penerbit/Publisher: Sinar Harapan
Edisi/Edition: I, 1981
Halaman/Pages: 244
Dimensi/Dimension: 14 x 21.5 x 2.5cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: Indonesia
Harga/Price: Rp. 59.000,-
Kode/Code: 00.00.60
Call No.: 813/Sur/p/C.1
Lokasi/Location: Jakarta
Status: Ada/Available

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"..... Pengakuan Pariyem dia kerjakan dalam periode 1978-1980. Linus Suryadi yang dikenal sebagai penyair yang kuat dalam lirik, kiranya menemukan kesempatan luas untuk merefleksikan suasana lingkungannya, melalui karya ini. Dan dapat dilihat sebagai pujangga Jawa Lama dahulu yang dengan kekuatan lirik mengungkapkan dunia di luar dirinya setelah melalui pemikiran Jawa. Sebagai orang Kejawen. Linus memang jadi pribadi yang khas, lebih-lebih ... "

- ASHADI SIREGAR-

" .... Pengakuan Pariyem ini, bagi saya membuktikan bahwa karya sastra mampu bicara banyak tentang gejala sosial, tentang kehidupan kultur dan manusia yang diwarnai oleh pola kultur itu. Bahkan banyak nuansa yang lebih banyak dapat kita tangkap, yang mungkin tidak mampu ditampilkan oleh karya-karya ilmiah atau hasi-hasil penelitian ilmiah yang 'Excellence' sekali pun."

-Drs. HOTMAN M. SIAHAAN-

ANAK BAJANG MENGGIRING ANGIN, Sindhunata

Judul/Title: Anak Bajang Menggiring Angin
Penulis/Author: Sindhunata
Penerbit/Publisher: Gramedia
Edisi/Edition: II, 1984
Halaman/Pages: 363
Dimensi/Dimension: 14 x 20.5 x 1.5cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: Indonesia
Harga/Price: Rp. 64.000,-
Kode/Code: 00.00.09
Call No.: 813/Sin/a/C.1
Lokasi/Location: Jakarta
Status: Ada/Available

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Buku ini merupakan penyempurnaan dari kisah Ramayana, tulisan Sindhunata, yang telah dimuat sebagai serial di Harian Kompas setiap hari Minggu selama tahun 1981. Pengarang menimba ilham penulisan buku ini dari kisah Ramayana sebagaimana sedang hidup di kalangan masyarakat Jawa. Tetapi buku Anak Bajang Menggiring Angin ini sebenarnya sebuah versi baru karena yang dilukiskan adalah harapan dan kerinduannya sendiri, yang sangat diwarnai oleh latar belakang dimana wayang berperan. Dan tokoh-tokoh wayang, yang memang imaginatif ternyata banyak membantu menuangkan maksudnya.

Buku ini akan menggugah pembaca untuk mempertimbangkan adanya suatu kenyataan lain, yang barangkali sedang dilalaikan. Ditampilkan suatu kisah, yang mengandung suatu kemustahilan, sesuatu yang asing untuk pengalaman biasa, mungkin sebuah impian kosong, bila dipandang dari kenyataan sehari-hari. Tetapi kekuatan dari karya sastra ini justru terletak dalam menjalin kisah tentang impian seakan-akan tampil sebagai cita-cita.

Siapa dapat memastikan: apakah kenyataan sesungguhnya impian dan impian malah justru kenyataan, karena tidak semua impian berakhir dalam kesia-siaan? Buku ini memberi harga yang mahal dan nilai yang tinggi terhadap impian manusia.

DUNIA SOPHIE, Jostein Gaarder

Edisi/Edition: 2002
Halaman/Pages: 561
Dimensi/Dimension: 13 x 20 x 2.5cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: Indonesia
Harga Jual/Sale Price: -
Call No.: 890.3 /Gaa/d/C.1
Status: Terjual/Sold

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Sophie, seorang pelajar sekolah menengah berusia empat belas tahun. Suatu hari sepulang sekolah, dia mendapat sebuah surat misterius yang hanya berisikan satu pertanyaan: "Siapa kamu?" Belum habis keheranannya, pada hari yang sama dia mendapat surat lain yang bertanya: "Dari manakah datangnya dunia?" Seakan tersentak dari rutinitas hidup sehari-hari, surat-surat itu membuat Sophie mulai mempertanyakan soal-soal mendasar yang tak pernah dipikirkannya selama ini. Dia mulai belajar filsafat.

RAMAYANA, Sunardi D.M.

Judul/Title: Ramayana
Penulis/Author: Sunardi D.M.
Penerbit/Publisher: Balai Pustaka
Edisi/Edition: VI, 2000
Halaman/Pages: 320
Dimensi/Dimension: 15 x 21 x 1 cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: English
Harga Jual/Sale Price: Rp. 90.000
Call No.: 791/Sun/r

Status: Ada/Available

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Kisah Ramayana ini merupakan versi Indonesia. Ia merupakan lanjutan dari cerita wayang Arjuna Sasrabahu. Ia diolah dari buku-buku serat padhalangan Ringgit Purwa jilid 36 (Jatuhnya Negeri Ayodya, Perkawinan Dasarata, Lahirnya Dewi Sinta dan Anoman, Perkawinan Rama dan Sinta, Rama Gandrung, Prabu Rama, Pasanggrahan Maliawan, Anoman Duta, Rama Tambak, Anggada Duta dan Bukbis), dan jilid 37 (Trikaya Tewas, Trisirah Tewas, Kumbakarna Tewas, Megananda Tewas, Rahwana Tewas, Tambak Undur, Sinta Obong, Rama Nitik dan Rama Nitis)

Ia diramu dengan cerita-cerita silsilah yang terdapat dalam buku Arjuna Sasrabahu karangan Raden Ngabehi Sindusastra terbitan Balai Pustaka Weltevreden 1930 Seri No.889, jilid 1,2,3,4,5, dan 6 (lahirnya tokoh-tokoh Alengka, lahirnya para kera anak dewa).

Penghimpun buku-buku serat Padhalangan Ringgit Purwa itu sendiri adalah Kanjeng Gusti Pangeran Adipati Arya Mangkunagara VII di Surakarta, Kanjeng Pangeran Arya Kusumadiningrat di Surakarta dan J. Kats.

Gambar-gambar wayang yang dijadikan ilustrasi aslinya diambil dari koleksi wayang kulit milik Kanjeng Gusti Pangeran Adipati Arya Mangkunegara IV di Surakarta.Untuk penyempurnaan di sana-sini dimasukkan kisah-kisah yang terdapat dalam buku yang lain, ialah buku Serat Rama terbitan Van Dorp & Co Semarang dan Surabaya tahun 1911, dan buku Almanak yang memuat cerita Ramawijaya terbitan Kolf Bunning Yogyakarta tahun 1922 nama pengarang tidak disebutkan, tetapi menurut gaya bahasanya adalah dari Yasadipuran.

Raden Ngabehi Yasadipura adalah pujangga Surakarta terkenal yang jenazahnya sekarang dimakamkan di makam keluarga Pengging, dekatBayalali, Jawa Tengah.

Untuk para Perwira, Bintara, dan Prajurit Angkatan Bersenjata kisah Ramayana ini sangat mengasyikan, karena di dalamnya terdapat peristiwa-peristiwa pertempuran perseorangan dan kelompok, peperangan yang menggunakan jutaan prajurit, dan bagaimana mengendalikan prajurit sebanyak itu.

THE WINDOWS, Fira Basuki

Judul/Title: The Windows
Penulis/Author: Fira Basuki [Traslated by: Norman Ince]
Penerbit/Publisher: Grasindo
Edisi/Edition: 2006
Halaman/Pages: 176
Dimensi/Dimension: 20 x 14 x 1cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: Inggris
Kategori/Category: Dijual/For Sale
Harga Jual/Sale Price: Rp. 50.000,-
Call No.: 823/Bas/w/C.1
Status: Ada/Available

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The windows is a novel about the life of a young couple. June, the main charachter, unfold the story. She tells about her past, her friends, and many other stories related to her life. This novel takes a place in different places, such as USA, Singapore, and Indonesia.

Questions about the idea of life are clearly depicted in this novel. Why is a life not as easy as man expect? Why is a marriage life not always a happily ever after after story, just like a beautiful princess with her prince charming as told in a fairy tale? Here, June tries to find the answers.

Then, who is Mr. x, that mysterious man appears at the end of the novel? As peeking outside and peeping at the one's window, this novel tries to unfold the human life from many different sides.

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, Fracine Pascal's

Judul/Title: Behind Closed Doors
Penulis/Author: Francine Pascals
Penerbit/Publisher: Bantams Book
Edisi/Edition: 1995
Halaman/Pages: 230
Dimensi/Dimension: 17.5 x 10.5 x 1.5cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: Inggris
Kategori/Category: Dijual/For Sale
Harga Jual/Sale Price: Rp. 25.000,-
Call No.: 823/pas/b/C.1
Status: Ada/Available

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Lessons in love...

Jessica wakefield has sworn off love forever. Tired of heartbreak, she's throwing all of her passion into her classes. And no one's more surprised than Jessica when Louis Miles, her georgeus professor, asks her to stay after class... for private lessons.

Elizabeth Wakefield has promised to help Todd Wilkins regain his starting position on the SVU basketball team. Elizabeth is willing to take on the corrupt athletics department, but when the whole administration turns against her, will she be able to stand her ground?

Winston Egbert has been so absorbed in his relationship with Denise Walters that he hasn't cracked a book in weeks. Now he's willing to do anything to pass his physics exam. Is Winstonn about to make the biggest mistake of his life?

TENGGELAMNYA KAPAL VAN DER WIJCK, Hamka

Judul/Title:Tenggelamnya Kapal Van der Wijck
Penulis/Author: Hamka
Penerbit/Publisher: Bulan Bintang
Edisi/Edition: 1985
Halaman/Pages: 224
Dimensi/Dimension: 14.5 x 20.5 x 1cm
Sampul/Cover:Paperback
Bahasa/Language: Indonesia
Kategori/Category: Dijual/For Sale
Call No.: 813/Ham/t/C.1
Status: Ada/Available

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Buku Tenggelamnya Kapal Van der Wijck ini, disusun oleh pengarangnya semasa ia masih berusia 31 tahun, dimana darah-mudanya masih cepat mengalir dalam dirinya dan khayal serta sentimennya masih demikian bergelora dalam jiwanya.

Isinya melukiskan suatu kisah cinta yang tak kesampaian antara dua muda mudi, dan berakhir dengan kematian. Suatu cerita roman fiksi, yang digubah demikian menarik, dijalin dengan mempergunakan bahasa sastra yang indah. Jalan ceritanya dilatar belakangi dengan peraturan-peraturan adat pustaka yang kokoh kuat, dalam suatu negeri yang bersuku dan berlembaga, berkaum kerabat dan berninik mamak.

Suatu kisah cinta yang murni, yang dilandasi keikhlasan dan kesucian jiwa, yang patut dijadikan tamsil ibarat, karena kerap terjadi dalam masyarakat.

RANAH 3 WARNA, A. Fuadi

Judul/Title:Ranah 3 Warna
Penulis/Author: A. Fuadi
Penerbit/Publisher: Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Edisi/Edition: 2011
Halaman/Pages: 473
Dimensi/Dimension: 13.5 x 20 x 2.5cm
Sampul/Cover:Paperback
Bahasa/Language: Indonesia
Kategori/Category: Dijual/For Sale
Call No.: 813/Fua/r/C.1
Status: Ada/Available

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Alif baru saja tamat dari Pondok Madani. Dia bahkan sudah bisa bermimpi dalam bahasa Arab dan Inggris. Impiannya? Tinggi betul, ingin belajar teknologi tinggi di Bandung seperti Habibie, lalu merantau sampai ke Amerika.

Dengan semangat menggelegak dia pulang kampung ke Maninjau dan tak sabar ingin segera kuliah. Namun kawan karibnya, Randal, meragukan Alif mampu lulus UMPTN. Lalu dia sadar, ada satu hal penting yang dia tidak punya. Ijazah SMA. Bagaimana mungkin mengejar semua cita-cita tinggi tanpa ijazah?

Terinspirasi semangat tim dinamit Denmark, dia mendobrak rintangan berat. Baru saja dia tersenyum, badai lain menggempurnya silih berganti tanpa ampun. Alif letih dan mulai bertanya-tanya: "Sampai kapan aku harus teguh bersabar menghadapi semua cobaan hidup ini?" Hampir saja dia menyerah.

Rupanya "mantra" man jadda wajada saja tidak cukup sakti dalam memenangkan hidup. Alif teringat "mantra" kedua yang diajarkan di Pondok Madani: man shabara zhafira. Siapa yang bersabar akan beruntung. Berbekal kedua mantra itu dia songsong badai hidup satu persatu. Bisakah dia memenangkan semua impiannya?

Ke mana nasib membawa Alif? Apa saja ranah 3 berbeda warna itu? Siapakah Raisa? Bagaimana persaingannya dengan Randal? Apa kabar Sahibul Menara? Kenapa sampai muncul Obelix, orang Indian, Michael Jordan, dan Kesatria Berpantun? Apa hadiah Tuhan buat sebuah kesabaran yang kukuh?

Ranah 3 warna adalah hikayat tentang bagaimana impian tetap wajib dibela habis-habisan walalu hidup digelung nestapa tak berkesudahan. Tuhan sungguh bersama orang yang sabar.

ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK?, Shidney Sheldon

Title: Are You Afraid of The Dark?

Writer: Shidney Sheldon

Publisher: Gramedia Pustaka Utama

Edition: 2005

Pages: 433

Dimension: 11 x 18 x 1.5cm

Cover:Paperback

Language: Indonesia

Category: For Sale/Rent

Price: Rp. 45.000,-

Call No.: 812/Shel/a/C.1

Status: Ada/Available

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Di New York, Denver, Paris dan Berlin, empat orang teas dalam empat kecelakaan yang berbeda.

Benang merah diantara para korban bangkit dari abu jenazah mereka: keempatnya karyawan Kingsley International Group, wadah pemikir terbesar di dunia. Perusahaan ini terlibat dalam strategi militer tingkat tinggi, komunikasi berskala dunia, serta isu-isu lingkungan.

Tak lama setelah empat kecelakaan tragis itu, dua istri para korban. Diane Stevens dan Kelly Harris, terancam nyawanya. Ketakutan, saling curiga, dan hanya berbekal otak sebagai senjata, dua wanita yang saling tidak menyukai ini terpaksa bahu-membahu bermain kucing-kucingan dengan nyawa mereka sebagai taruhan. Dan ketika mereka semakin terlibat dalam kubangan misteri itu, mereka menemukan kebenaran mengerikan mengenai KIG dan orang yang berdiri di belakangnya.

BOTCHAN, Natsume Soseki

Title: Botchan

Writer: Natsume Soseki

Publisher: Gramedia Pustaka Utama

Edition: 2009

Pages: 224

Dimension: 20x 14,5x 1cm

Cover:Paperback

Language: Indonesia

Category: For Sale/Rent

Price: Rp. 45.000,-

Call No.: 8../Bot/sos/C.1

Status: Ada/Available

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Seperti cerita The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Botchan mengisahkan pemberontakan guru muda terhadap "sistem" di sebuah sekolah desa. Sifat Botchan yang selalu terus terang dan tidak mau berpura-pura seringkali membuat ia mengalami kesulitan dalam berinteraksi dengan orang-orang disekitarnya. Cerita yang dituturkan secara humoris ini sangat populer di kalangan tua dan muda di Jepang, dan barangkali merupakan novel klasik yang paling banyak dibaca di Jepang modern.

THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST, Charles Dickens

Judul/Title: The Ghost of Christmas Past

Penulis/Author: Charles Dickens

Penerbit/Publisher: Masterpiece Library

Edisi/Edition: 1970

Halaman/Pages: 128

Dimensi/Dimension: 10.5x 17.5 x 3cm

Sampul/Cover: Paperback

Bahasa/Language: English

Kategori/Category: Sewa, Jual/Rent, Sale

Harga Jual/Sale Price: Rp. 25.000,-

Call No.: 823/Dic/g/C.1

Status: Ada/Available

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With the clanking of chains, the ghost of Jacob Marley loomed up before Ebenezer Scrooge. Wrapped in a grotesque array of ledger, deeds, and contracts, the frightening apparition bore warning of the fate which awaited Scrooge as punishment for his miserly ways and his disdain of the Christmas Spirit.

Yet Scrooge could save himself. On three successive nights, he would be the object of more ghostly visitations, each of which would teach him something about himself, the world he lived in and his wasted live of greed.

Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol is the moving story of Ebenezer Scrooge's reformation. Told with all the imagination and charm that make Dickens forever popular, the account of Scrooge's conversion from miser and misanthrope to humanitarian and philanthropist also has a moral relevance that extends far beyond its setting in the yulitide season.

Written in 1843, when the author was 31, A CHRISTMAS CAROL is perhaps Dickens' most widely read tale. Filled with warmth, humor, compassion and irony, over the past century, it has become as much a part of christmas as holly and ivy.

THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, Sue Monk Kidd

Title: The Secret Life of Bees

Writer: Sue Monk Kidd

Publisher: Headline Publishing

Edition: 2008

Pages: 375

Dimension: 17x 11x 0,5cm

Cover: Paperback

Language: English

Category: For Sale

Call No.: 823/Mon/S/C.1

Status: Available

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Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was just four years old. Now, at fourteen, she yearns for forgiveness and a mother's love. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her father, her only friend is Rosaleen, a black servant.

When racial tension explodes one summer afternoon, and Rosaleen is arrested and beaten, Lily is compelled to act. Fugitives from justice, the pair follow a trail left by the woman who died ten year before. Finding sanctuary in the home of three beekeeping sisters, Lily starts a journey as much about her understanding of the world, as about the mystery surrounding her mother.

Praise for THE SECRETS LIFE OF BEES:

'Eccentrict, inventive and ultimately forgiving' ANITA SHREVE

'Charming, funny, moving' THE TIMES

'This is a wonderful book, by turns funny, sad, full of incident and shot throught with grown-up magic reminiscent of Joanne Harris' DAILY TELEGRAPH

'Uplifting and warm-hearted, this is a moving novel'

THE ODYSSEY-HOMER, T.E. Laurance

Title: HOMER-The Odyssey

Writer: T. E. Laurence

Publisher: Wordsworth Classic

Edition: 1992

Pages: 239

Dimension: 20x 12,5x 1,4cm

Cover: Softcover

Language: English

Category: For Sale/Rent

Call No.: 883/Hom/O/C.1

Status: Available

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'the oldest book worth reading for its story, and the first novel of europe'.

T.E. Lawrence.

As well as being one of the greatest and most influential books ever written, The Odyssey is the finest of adventure stories. It tells of the ten-year wanderings of Odysseus after the fall of Troy, of his encounters with drug addicts, cannibals, nymphs and monsters, and of his struggles for the favour of the capricious gods.

T.E. Lawrence, 'Lawrence of Arabia', was a scholar as well as a soldier, and his senitive and accessible translation of The Odyssey is one of his finest works.

The original of this edition was designed by Bruce Rogers and published in New York in 1932. This impression is a reprint of the 1935 english edition.

THE ENGLISH PATIENT, MIchael Ondaatje

Title: The English Patient

Writer: Michael Ondaatje

Publisher: Vintage International

Edition: 1993

Pages: 305

Dimension: 20x 13x 1,5cm

Cover: Softcover

Language: English

Category: For Sale

Call No.: 853/Ond/E/C.1

Status: Available

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"Sensuous, mysterious, rhapsodic ...

It transports the reader to another world, and uncovers that world's connection to our own."

-San Fransisco Chronicle

With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four demaged lives in an Italian Villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper; Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs rooms and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lighting.

"A tale of many pleasure-an intensely threatical tour de force."

-The New York Times Book Review

JACOB'S ROOM, Virginia Woolf

Title: Jacob's Room

Writer: Virginia Woolf

Publisher: A Harvest Book

Edition: 1960

Pages: 176

Dimension: 20x 13,5x 1cm

Cover: Softcover

Language: English

Category: For Rent/ For Sale

Call No.: 823/Woo/J/C.1

Status: Available

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"Jacob's Room (1922) comes as a tremendous surprise. The impossible has occurred.The style closely resembles that of Kew Gardens. The blobs of colour continue to drift past, but in their midst, interrupting their course like a closely sealed jar, rises the solid figure of a young man. In the sense jacob is alive-in what sense any of Virginia Woolf's characters live-we have yet to determine. but that he axists, that he stands as does a monument is curtain, and where ever he stands we recognize him for the same and are touched by his outline. The coherence of the book is even more amazing than its beauty. In the stream of glittering similes, unfinished sentences, hectic catalogues, unanchored proper names, we seem to be going nowhere. Yet the goal comes, the method and the matter prove to have been one, and looking back from the pathos of the closing scene we see for the moment the airy drifting atoms piled into a colonade. The break with Night and Day and even with The Voyage Out is complete. A new type of fiction has swum into view ..."

-E. M. Forster

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was internationally acclaimed as a novelist, critic, and stylist.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS, Emily Bronte

Title: Wuthering Heights
Author: Emily Bronte
Publisher: Rohan Book Company
Edition: 1996
Pages: 222
Dimension: 13x 10,5x 1,5cm
Cover: Softcover
Language: English
Category: For Sale
Price: Rp. 12.500,-
Call No.: 823/Bro/W/C.1
Status: Available

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Wuthering Heights

Modern illustrated classics are being made handy

To the convinience of our young readers

To cultivate reading habit, improve word power

And strengthen their languange.

KIM, Rudyard Kipling

Title: Kim
Author: Rudyard Kipling,KIM
Publisher: Oxford
Edition: 1987
Pages: 306
Dimension: 18,5x 11,5x 2cm
Cover: Paperback
Language: English
Category: For Sale
Price: Rp. 40.000,-
Call No.: 823/Kip/W/C.1
Status: Available

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Kim (1901) is the story of Kimball O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, who spends his childhood as a Vagabond in Lahore. With an old Tibetan lama he travels through india, enthralled by the 'roaring whirl' and kaleidoscope of the country's landscape and its cities of richly coloured bazaars and immense diversity of people.

The novel is masterpiece of careful organization and skilfully manipulated narative techniques. By portraying Kim's utter devotion to the lama and his ability to share the life of the common people intimately and unselfconciously, kipling creates a vision of harmony-and of India-that unites the secular and the spiritual, the life of action with that of contemplation.

This edition includes a map of north-west India.

Alan Sandison is the former Professor of English at Strathclyde University, and Author of The Wheel of Empire. The General Editor of Kipling in the World's Clasics series is andrew Rutherford, who has also edited Early Verse by Rudyard Kipling 1879-1889 and Kipling's Mind and Art.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being,Milan Kundera

Tittle: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Writer: Milan Kundera

Publisher: Faber and Faber
Edition: 1999
Pages: 311
Dimension: 17,5x 11x 2cm
Cover: Paperbacks
Language: English
Category: For Sale

Price: Rp. 87.000,-
Call No.: 823/Kun/U/C.1
Status: Available

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a story of irreconcilable love and infidelities in which Milan Kundera addresses him self to the nature of twentieth-century 'being', offering a wide range of brilliant and amusing philosophycal speculations. First published in 1984, Kundera's Masterly novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, and was at once hailed by critics as a contemporary classic.

'Read this book; here is a writer who really matters.'

Malcolm Bradbury

'There are novels that are tragic, or entertaining, and this one is both. There are very few that give a fresh perspective on existence, and force the reader to reassess his own life and antitudes.' Victoria Glendinning, Sunday Times

'The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a work of the boldest mastery, originality and richness.' Vanity Fair

LAST ORDER, Graham Swift

Tittle: Last Order

Writer: Graham Swift

Publisher: Picador
Edition: 1996

Pages: 296

Dimension: 18x 11x 1,8cm

Cover: Paperbacks
Language: English
Category: For Sale

Price: Rp. 60.000,-
Call No.: 823/Swi/L/C.1

Status: Available

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Four man once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to her self, Jack's Widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the surface the tale of simple if increasingly  bizarre day's outing, Last Orders is Graham Swift's most poignant exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives.

'His finest book to date; emotionally charge and technically superb...Last Orders is about how we live and how we die and our strunggle to make abidding connections between the two'

Times Literary Supplement

'A Triumph...A novel that unflincingly contemplates human  perishability, and that also pays unsentimental tribute to human resilience'

Sunday Times

'Triumpant...a ressonant work of art...a surpassing testament to swift's vibrant and powerfull gifts'

The Times

'A book to match his masterpiece Waterland...Last Orders confirms his reputation as one of the great contemporary chroniclers of landscape and memory

Observer

'Inspired...His finest novel yet'

Guardian

'Tragic, comic and wonderfully compassionate'

Daily Mail

EMPTY WORLD, John Christoper

Title: Empty World

Writer: John Christopher

Publisher: Puffin Books

Edition: 1981

Pages: 134

Dimension: 18x 11x 0,8cm

Cover: Softcover

Language: English

Category: For Sale

Price: Rp. 70.000,-

Call No.: 823/Chr/E/C.1

Status: Available

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Neil Miller is alone after the death of

His family in an accident. So, when

A virulent plague sweeps across the

World, dealing death to all it

Touches, Nailhas a double battle for

Survival: not just for the physical

Necessities of life, but with the subtle

Preasures  of fear and loneliness.

A chilling portrait of a world where a

nightmare has come true.