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Di Bawah Lindungan Ka'bah (Under the Protection of Ka'bah) is the 1938 debut novel of the Indonesian author Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah (1908–1981). Written while the author worked in Medan as the editor of an Islamic weekly magazine, the novel follows the doomed romance of a young Minang couple from different social backgrounds.
In a review for The Atlantic, Jane Yong Kim called the novel "a surreal, poignant account of a teen attempting to become a man." [ 5 ] Comparing it to Kurniawan's previous work, Man Tiger , Kim wrote "In Man Tiger, Kurniawan masterfully played with time to tell a complicated family story from multiple sides.
He wrote about the tradition in the novel The Sun Also Rises. [1] In Death in the Afternoon, Hemingway explores the metaphysics of bullfighting—the ritualized, almost religious practice—that he considered analogous to the writer's search for meaning and the essence of life. In bullfighting, he found the elemental nature of life and death. [1]
His novel Beauty Is a Wound was included in the list of 100 notable books by The New York Times. [4] The use of magic realism in the book has led to comparisons to Gabriel García Márquez . Kurniawan has insisted that Beauty Is a Wound is neither a historical novel nor a book about Indonesian history.
The novel begins with a brief prologue describing the bioforms—dubbed the First-Born—who created the black monoliths. They evolved from "primordial soup", and over the course of millions of years, became a space-faring species. Perceiving that nothing was more precious than "mind", they catalysed the evolution of intelligent species ...
Senja di Jakarta (English: Twilight in Jakarta) is an Indonesian novel written by Mochtar Lubis and first published in English by Hutchinson & Co. in 1963, with a translation by Claire Holt. It was later published in Indonesian in 1970.
book by the name of al-Kamil fi Dhu'afa' al-Rijal.Imam al-Dhahabi has since extended it, refined it and called it Mizan al-Itidal. It is one of the most famous booksin the field of Ilm al-Rijal (Science of Narrators or Biographical evaluation), and is published in five volumes that contain more than 3000 pages. [4]
"Reality" in the I-novel is defined by 3 aspects. The first is a one-to-one relationship between the author's experience and the story in the novel, though slight differences are acceptable. The second is "inner reality". Rather than reflecting accurate facts, the I-novel emphasizes more on the actual spiritual condition of the author.