“Aphrodite” Goes to Apple iPhone & iPod Touch
[drom.mobi] Aphrodite (16 tahun) adalah cewek ambisius, cuek, optimis, keras, dan disayang banyak orang, terutama para anggota band Rhythm and Groove (RAG). Dari mereka Aphrodite banyak belajar tentang makna persahabatan dan cinta, yang selalu mewarnai hidupnya. Karena ibunya, wanita karier yang single parent, terlalu sibuk, Aphrodite tumbuh dalam asuhan seorang pembantu yang penuh kasih-sayang.
Belasan tahun Aphrodite mencari ayah kandung yang meninggalkannya sejak ia masih dalam kandungan—untuk melampiaskan dendam. Akankah sang ayah berhasil ia temukan? Akankah dendamnya terbalaskan?
Dalam urusan cinta, Aprhodite harus bersaing dengan Gisela, sang kakak kelas yang cantik dan ramah, untuk merebut hati Adrian Delano, seorang sahabatnya di RAG. Aphrodite harus memilih: cinta atau persahabatan.
About The Author :
My Jakarta: Laire Siwi Mentari, Writer
Laire Siwi Mentari is one of Indonesian literature’s most promising young talents. Still two months shy of 21, Laire, who has two novels, a screenplay and a collection of short stories to her credit, has seen her craft take her around the world.
The only child of Sitok Srengenge, a poet and the program director at Utan Kayu Community, Laire talks about how the writing bug caught on her, the perks of having a novel published and why no other home could replace her Jakarta.
Filed under Buku Mobi | Comment (0)Get it “The Scented Mummy” on Your iPhone/iPod Touch
The Scented Mummy by Naning Pranoto was published in Indonesia as Mumi Beraroma Minyak Wangi by IndonesiaTera in 2001. This is the English translation. It tells the story of a middle class woman whose life is numbed by politics: hence the term ‘mummy’ to describe the shell of an existence that she lives. The cause of her suffering is Suharto’s New Order regime with its anti-Communist and crony-capitalist characteristics. For three decades from the 1960s to the 1990s, it created victims on the one hand and unprincipled opportunists on the other. While President Suharto had been hailed in his time as the father of development, this ‘development’ was viewed with irony by the common people who were left weak and dependent. Read More…