Bøger udgivet af Yayasan Lontar

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.

Presents seventeen of A.A. Navis's most provocative and engaging stories. These range from a light-hearted comedy of errors between a husband and wife to heavy-hitting critiques of corruption, patrimonialism, bureaucratic morass, and self-righteous pretension.

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.

In the stories found in The Anatomy of Travel, the distinctiveness of Gerson Poyk's writing can be seen in the way he portrays regional or rural colour. This color is found in the themes of his stories, in the characteristics of the protagonists, the names of the characters, the settings, and the plots, which are simple and straightforward.

Viewed by literary critics as Kuntowijoyo's seminal work, Sermon on the Mount is the story of one man's spiritual fulfilment. The story is told through the eyes of Barman, an older man whose son has moved to a luxurious vacation home in the mountains.

This collection of 24 Sundanese short stories is the first collection of its kind ever to be translated into English. The stories deal with a variety of subjects, ranging from everyday-politics, where corruption is rife, to stories of village life and the trials faced by villagers forced to confront the waves of modernization.

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.

Presents a series of intertwined and unconventional love stories with a bit of science and spirituality added to the mix. The characters are urban and tech-savvy youngsters who are caught in different forms of contemporary social conflict.

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.