Life of Pi, A Novel Yann Martel: Summary
His name was Piscine Molitor Patel. His parents named him after an excellence swimming pool in French. Mamaji (uncle), a man who did business to his father, as friend to his family, has given that swimming pool name. Mamaji, a champion competitive swimmer, studied in Paris two years. There was an indoor pool with Chateu-Landon. His friends at school often bullied him as pissing, but one day he declared his name Pi equal to 3.14. Since then, he called Pi. He was born as a Hindu but Pi really interested in other religion and wanted to practice it all so he had religious holiday everyday in a week. He often argued to his older brother Ravi about religion such as Christian, Islam, and Hindu.
The Husband, a Novel by Dean Koontz: summary
In his neighborhood, most families relied on two incomes. Everyone was at work. Being together on the front of porch offered as much pleasure as being together in Pas. They were saving money for that. To allow his wife to risk a career change form secretary to real estate agent. Mitchell Rafferty and his wife did not spend much on entertainment. No vacation, no weekend. They seldom went to the movie.
He found the blood at his kitchen, later he got a call from his wife and her kidnapper. The voice asked 2 million cash. A stranger walking dog was killed in front of his house. When he was shot Mitch was on the phone with his wife Holly. His employee Iggy Barnes also witnessed the murder.
The Lowland, a novel by Jhumpa Lahiri: summary
Part one described the lowland in where nearby of the pasture of golf club. The story of two brothers, Subhash and Udayan that often played to that neighborhood even it’s forbidden for the locals. A British golf club owned to colonial British when occupied Calcutta. Tollygunge, an area has turned Muslims to minority because of the Partition.
Subhash as older brother have contrast behavior in many aspect and even in choosing school. The boys studied assiduously every evening, working on equation and formulas. They were admitted to the city’s best colleges. Udayan the younger brother went to physics and Subhash for chemical engineering. They were the only boys in their neighborhood, the only students form their unremarkable high school, to have done so well.
Time for a Change (1997), a Woman Fiction by Erica James: Summary
Hillary Parker just discovered her husband was having an affair. David Parker had been talking and citing a woman’s name in his sleep. David ran estate-agency office in the center of the village. Her neighbor Cindy certainly wasn’t going to get involved in someone else’s problems. Cindy and Derek ran the thriving health and beauty centre in Acacia Lane. They had been living only nineteen months in the village of Hulme Welford, Cheshire.
Things We Never Say (2013), Sheila O’Flanagan: Summary
Back to Tipperary, Ireland 55 years ago, there were no many golden-haired, blue-eyed girls in the Midlands like Ita Dillon. It was hard for Fred Fitzpatrick to believe that his wife had gone. Ros had been the one to keep things going in the bad times, when money was scarce, when Fred was struggling to find customers. She was the one who had held the children together.
Fred dealt in security systems mainly car and household alarm. Old enough for pension, Fred, had finally decided cash in and lived in a good life. His eldest son, Donald was carrying on the family tradition by remaining sales director. The youngest of his three children, she had caused far more trouble than Donald and Gareth.
Ringkasan (Resume) Novel Terjemahan dalam Bahasa Indonesia: Zahir, karya fiksi dari Paulo Coelho
Kisah fiksi yang disampaikan dalam bahasa indah diawali dengan kegelisahan lelaki yang kehilangan istri. Esther wanita berusia 30 tahun, yang telah dinikahinya selama sepuluh tahun dan kini mereka tengah berada pada masa kebosanan dalam pernikahan. Sang istri adalah seorang wartawati perang yang berprestasi dengan menerima dua hadiah jurnalis internasional. Informasi terakhir kali diketahui dia bersama lelaki berwajah ras Mongolia yang bernama Mikhail.
Summary Novel Terjemahan Berbahasa Indonesia: The First Phone Call From Heaven ( Telepon Pertama dari Surga) by Mitch Albom
Pendeta Warren sangat dikejutkan menerima telepon dari warga jemaatnya yang mengaku mendapat telepon dari kakak perempuannya yang telah meninggal beberapa tahun lalu. Khaterin Yellin mengaku itu benar-benar suara kakaknya dan kesaksiannya telah menggemparkan. Dia pun melakukan wawancara langsung di televisi nasional.
Wanita berusia empat puluh enam, agen properti dan memiliki anak dua mendapat telepon dari kakak perempuannya yang telah meninggal. Seolah-olah digambarkan baik dia atau kakaknya orang yang baik. Tidak beberapa lama kemudian beberapa warga lain menerima telepon dari keluarganya yang telah meninggal. Namun kesaksian-kesaksian itu berarti buruk bagi warga yang tidak menerima telepon dari keluarganya yang meninggal. Keresahan pun muncul.
Resume (Ringkasan) Novel Terjemahan Smoke Screen (Kabut Asap)
Wanita muda baru saja bangun dari tidurnya dan berupaya membangunkan teman lelakinya di sebuah apartmen yang bukan miliknya. Pagi yang membawa petaka bagi seorang reporter cantik, cerdas, dan karirnya tengah naik daun di sebuah kota yang tidak terlalu besar, Chaleston. Jay Burgess temannya dan sosok polisi pahlawan yang terkenal ditemukan tewas tanpa busana.
Sejak pagi itu kehidupan Britt tidak pernah sama lagi, ia dituduh sebagai pembunuh. Pemberitaan pun gempar, Britt menjadi bulan-bulanan dan dituduh membunuh polisi muda itu. Jay Burgess, seorang polisi terkenal karena ia telah dinobatkan sebagai salah satu pahlawan, ditemukan tewas di apartemennya sendiri dengan seorang reporter. Sebelum hasil autopsi didapat Britt pun sudah seolah dituduh dan bulan-bulanan media lainnya.
Two Little Girls in Blue, a Novel by Mary Higgins Clark: summary
It was the third birthday of the Frawleys identical twins girls. Hours after the excitement party, Kathy and Kelly were kidnapped and a ransom note demanding eight million dollars left in their bed. On the next morning the kidnapping of the Frawley twins was headline news all along and by early afternoon had become a national media event. The birthday picture of beautiful little girls with their angelic faces, and long blond hair and dressed, was shown on television news channels and printed in newspapers all over the country. Steve and Margaret Frawley appeared on television in front of their home. Margaret said to the kidnappers she only could promise two hundred thousand dollars in cash from her friends were taking up collection. Kathy was sick.
The Breakdown Lane, Jacquelyn Mitchard: summary
Her name was Julianne Ambrose Gillis and her father was popular, bestselling, and yet grudging respected novelist. In the beginning there was Leo Steiner who came to her life. She loved her life and her marriage. Leo’s parents expected him to marry another girl but he chose Julie. It began at college and they loved each other. Leo Steiner had a high IQ. His parents were poor but proud. His mother was a Holocaust survivor. Hannah and Gabe Steiner were the most casual of Jews and Julie’s parents the merest Episcopalians. Leo’s first job was a huge insurance firm in Chicago and Julie got work copyediting at newspaper, the graveyard shift, reserved for desperate, the daylight drunk, and the constitutionally bizarre. Leo worked fourteen- hour days and Julie worked fourteen-hour nights.
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