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"Summary: One of the premier Japanese novels of the twentieth century, The Women in the Dunes combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel. In a remote seaside village, Niki Jumpei, a teacher and amateur entomologist, is held captive with a young woman at the bottom of a vast sand pit where, Sisyphus-like, they are pressed into shoveling off the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten the village."

"Di sebuah dataran tandus dan terpencil, Tuan Mahmut dan asistennya, Cem, bekerja menggali sumur dengan berbekal peralatan tradisional dan naluri yang kuat. Kondisi yang berat itu mendekatkan mereka, bahkan mengubah hubungan tuan-asisten tersebut menjadi seperti ayah-anak. Sementara air yang dinanti tak kunjung muncul, Cem justru terpikat primadona teater keliling, seorang wanita berambut merah. Namun, kehadiran wanita itu juga mendatangkan bencana. Seseorang terbunuh dan menghantui hingga 3 dekade berikutnya. Red Haired Woman membawa kita menyusuri pencarian Pamuk terhadap bagaimana sastra menjadi dasar sebuah peradaban. Lewat perjumpaan mitos besar Oedipus Rex dari Barat dan Kisah Rostam dan Sohrab dari Timur, Pamuk mencoba mengulas hubungan antara ayah dan anak, juga negara dan kebebasan individu. Tak salah lagi, Red Haired Woman merupakan karya istimewa yang semakin menegaskan bahwa Orhan Pamuk adalah salah satu penulis terbesar abad ini."

"Summary: Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first, Lo's stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers remain accounted for, and so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Lo's desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wro"