Lontar Foundation

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...

Ternate-born Nukila Amal is one of Indonesia's most innovative and imaginative contemporary writers. Her stories - often hilarious, always moving, occasionally heartbreaking, sometimes shocking, but...

In the Small Hours of the Night, a 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,...

Based to some extent on the author's own life and experience, Once Upon a Ship tells the story of Sri, a young, shy Javanese woman who is greatly affected by her father's death when she is a teenager...

Viewed by literary critics as Kuntowijoyo's seminal work, Sermon on the Mount is the story of one man's spiritual fulfillment. The story is told through the eyes of Barman, an older man whose son has...

From the cultural and geographical heart of Indonesia come thirty engaging, and often startling short stories originally written in contemporary Javanese. Javanese hosts a thousand-year-old heritage...

Siti Surabaya by F. Manna Aziz is the Surabaya poet's own amalgam of several of his earlier works in a single epic-length poem - "? la Octavio Paz," as he has expressed it. While the title's...

Supernova 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...