Lontar: 62 books

German title: Hadschi Schia und andere Erzählungen Indonesian title: Haji Syiah dan cerita lainnya Ben Sohib’s stories, often set in Jakarta and with their panoramic backdrop of urban Muslim life, contain fierce criticism against religious radicalism and serve to admonish people who...

Novel Telegram (Telegram) by Putu Wijaya, published in 1973 is considered an important milestone in Indonesian literature. Its success makes the synthesis between reality and fantasy. Although it contains many elements of "mental terror" and psychological disorientation, this book is a portrait...

Supernova: The Knight, The Princess and the Falling Star (Supernova: Ksatria, Putrid an Bintang Jatuh), published in 2001, is an innovator in the development history of modern Indonesian literature. Written by a young writer, as intellectual work that takes the form of pop-art and is set in the real...

Never the Twain, the translation of the novel ‘Salah Asuhan’ by Abdoel Moeis, was first published in 1928 as an allegory of the struggle of the Indonesian community in finding a national identity during Indonesian pre-independence. The story is told thorough Hanafi, a young Indonesian who received...

A fast-paced, intensely emotional drama of Indonesian life high and low, set against the tumultuous backdrop of the reformasi era, after the fall of Suharto in 1999. The Painter of Lost Souls is the story of Sito, a brilliantly gifted artist who leaves his home in a poor village in Central Java while...

Armijn Pane’s novel, Shackles (Belenggu) was first published in 1940. Although the main conflict of the story involves a love triangle, the author raises several issues facing society at the time, such as women participating in higher education, their consequent changes in attitude toward family...