Yogyakarta - Sebuah Novel (Indonesian Edition)

Synopsis: A story about six human in a boarding house in the surrounding of Jogjakarta of palace – with different ethnicity, culture, and religion – finding their self identity and expressing their respective life problems. Yudhistira (Yogyakarta), Olivia (Jakarta), Gerson (Ambon), Yahya (China/Pontianak), Karta (Medan), and Tarjo (Madura). Four young men from across the island, came to Jogjakarta to continue their studies. Gerson, a Moslem who saw his father died in Ambon conflict; Tarjo, a religious teacher’s child from Madura, who is struggling to find life journey; Yahya, a Chinese and a Buddhist from Pontianak, a medical school student and a true bookworm who has mysterious past love life; and Karta from Medan, an overconfident man with golden voice. They all live in the palace surroundings, in a house owned by Ananda Karmila, a firm widow but very open to differences. She has the youngest son living with her, Yudhistira Mangkubumi, a calm smart man. Yudhistira has a heart wound in his teenage days that makes him cold to all women. The situation in that male only boarding house becomes lively when Ananda decides to accept a woman in the boarding house --- Olivia from Jakarta. Olivia is a Catholic, beautiful, smart, with tall slender body, rich and sharp-tongued, a sociology student who is running away – so as not to be married with her father’s choice --- by researching the palace. The conflict, that is wrapped with mutual understanding and solidarity, thickens when those four men quietly compete for Olivia’s attention, while on the other hand trying to unravel their problems and their own past. (http://www.gramediainternational.com/book/detail/9789792258851)