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Orang Biasa-Biasa /
Invisible People
Genre:
General Fiction
(Drama)
Orang-orang Biasa depicts a story on
a group of ordinary people making
peace with poverty while demanding
for their basic rights – importance of
communal power, and the willingness
of individuals to change the direction
of their life – and it took place in
a peaceful Belantik village where
crime was nonexistent, people were
happy living alongside poverty, and
harbouring no dreams of pursuing
bigger dreams nor higher education.
This novel marks Andrea Hirata’s
10th opus and weaves a riveting tale
of mundane life riddled with twists.
Full of humor and pure-hearted
values, don’t you want to know the
ending of this novel?
Guru Aini /
Aini’s Teacher
Genre:
ANDREA HIRATA General Fiction
(Drama)
Andrea Hirata (born 1967) is a prolific Guru Aini tells a story of a
Indonesian author best known for his mathematics teacher - Ibu Desi,
New York Times Bestseller novel Laskar assigned to teach in a remote
Pelangi (“The Rainbow Troops”) and and rural area. Ibu Desi nursed
its sequels. He was born in Gantung, an obsession and ideal to find a
Belitung, and made sure all his works mathematical genius student, but
the one she met instead was Aini –
are embedded with his native culture a student who aspired to become a
and roots. He was the winner of New doctor, and her weakest subject is
York Book Festival 2013 in general mathematics. Can Aini be the best
fiction category, making him the first mathematics student for Ibu Desi?
Indonesian author to win the award. A prequel of Orang-orang Biasa, Guru
Aini invokes laughter as well as instils
moral values into anyone who reads
this book.
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