000.000.000.001 A Thousand Splendid Suns
The novel opens with the introduction of Mariam, an Afghan girl growing up in a small village on the outskirts of Herat. She lives with her mother, Nana, an embittered woman who is frequently resentful towards her daughter whom she bore out of wedlock. Mariam busies herself with lessons in reading and writing from Mullah Faizullah, an elderly kind-hearted cleric, and weekly visits from her wealthy father, Jalil. Mariam has heard of her father's other wives and children, who live with him at his lavish home in Herat, but has never visited them due to the stigma of her being an illegitimate child. On her fifteenth birthday in 1974, Mariam wants her father to take her to see Pinocchio at the movie theatre that he owns. When Jalil fails to show up, Mariam decides to travel to Herat for the first time in her life and go to her father's house in person. Jalil refuses to see her, and she ends up sleeping outdoors on the porch.
In the morning, Mariam returns home to find that her mother has hanged herself out of fear that her daughter has deserted her.
Mariam is taken to live in her father's house, where she feels isolated and spends most of her time alone in her room. Jalil and his wives quickly arrange for her to be married to an older widower named Rasheed, who is a middle-class shoemaker in Kabul.
In Kabul, Mariam begins adjusting to her new life as the wife of a man she barely knows. Mariam soon becomes pregnant, and Rasheed, having lost his own son in a drowning accident years earlier, hopes for a boy. When Mariam suffers a miscarriage, her marriage takes a turn for the worse; Rasheed is no longer cordial to her, but verbally and physically abuses her.
Down the street lives Laila, the beautiful, bright young daughter of ethnic Tajik parents - a progressive-minded high school teacher and a mother who mourns the loss of her two sons, who were mujahideen fighting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Laila has a subtle romance with Tariq, a boy from the neighborhood who lost a leg as a small child to a land mine explosion.
War comes to Afghanistan, and Kabul is bombarded by rocket attacks. Tariq's family decides to leave the city. The emotional farewell between Laila and Tariq culminates in a clandestine tryst on the living room sofa.
Laila's family also decides to leave Kabul, but as they are packing, a rocket destroys the house and kills her parents. Laila is taken in by Rasheed and Mariam.
After recovering from her injuries, including a slight deafness in one ear, Laila discovers she is pregnant with Tariq's child. To avoid the stigma of being an unwed mother, Laila arranges to marry Rasheed, who is only too eager to have a young and attractive second wife, and immediately consummates the marriage in hopes that she can pass the child off as his. A man stops by the house to tell Laila that he met Tariq at a hospital, and that Tariq was now dead.
Laila gives birth to Aziza, a daughter. Rasheed is unhappy and suspicious, and he becomes more abusive.
After an initially rancorous relationship, Mariam and Laila eventually become confidantes. They plan to run away from Rasheed and leave Kabul for Peshawar, Pakistan, but they are betrayed at the bus station by a man they thought they could trust, arrested and returned to Rasheed. Rasheed beats the two women and deprives them of water for several days, almost killing Aziza.
A few years later, Laila gives birth to Zalmai, Rasheed's son. By this time, the Taliban has risen to power in Afghanistan. They have banned television, movies and books other than the Koran, and women are not allowed to work. A drought comes, which eventually leads to widespread hunger and food shortages. When Rasheed's shop burns down, the family is thrust into destitution. There is little food and Rasheed finds himself reduced to working as a porter at a hotel. As their financial situation worsens, Aziza is sent to an orphanage a few kilometers away.
Then one day, Tariq appears outside the house, revealing the fact that the man who stopped by the house to tell the news about Tariq's death was a plan made by Rasheed. He and Laila are reunited, and their passions flare anew. When Rasheed returns home from work, young Zalmai tells his father about the visitor. Rasheed starts to savagely beat Laila with his belt, but Mariam comes to Laila's defense by killing Rasheed with a shovel.
Laila and Tariq leave for Pakistan with the children. Mariam confesses to killing her husband and is executed.
After the fall of the Taliban in 2003, Laila and Tariq decide to return to Afghanistan. They stop in the village near Herat where Mariam was raised, and discover a package that Mariam's father had left behind for her: a videotape of Pinocchio and check for her share of the family inheritance. They return to Kabul and fix up the orphanage.
000.000.000.002 Aku Beriman Maka Aku Bertanya (indonesian version)
Many people believe that a rational question would only undermine the faith. Critical question is often met with stiff by the religious. As a result, turmoil continued to fester faith in the minds of the questioners. Their efforts in resolving the conflict of faith and reason are always stumble Muslim tendency to standardize the opinions of previous scholars. No doubt, religious apathy and whipping the young convert Muslims. These are the most experienced real difficulty knit ties with Islam in the secular culture. With a charming and heartfelt, Jeffrey Lang scan lethargy and tried to respond earlier. He tried to answer the complaint of the generation of Muslims and converts, as well as detractors claim Islam. According to him, to reach the true faith, we must free ourselves from tradition and examine our beliefs rationally. Many methods used in the Qur'an encourages us to approach the faith in God is rational! He also stressed the importance of open discussion of issues that many felt uncomfortable in the Muslim community, with the advanced attitude is, objectively, and did not flinch from controversy. This book examines many of the questions posed that are considered taboo in the mosque or religious forums conservative. He embraced Muslim voices who are alienated from the mosque, for restore fitness in attracting the Muslim community and make the descent and engage new members. Apparently, a lot of pen in this book that ended question with concerns they considered atheistic or subversive to the Lord. This means, they ask because they still believe, need a convincing reason, and enable the mind to approach their faith in God.
000.000.000.003 Apartemen Yacoubian (indonesian version)
Modern Arab novel bestseller reveals the ins and outs romance diverse human child, and socio-political situation gebalau a developing country with all the problems of photographing Egypt kiniKecamuk all sides of human life was represented by various people who inhabited the Yacoubian apartment, a unique building that once become one of the grandest buildings in Cairo: a lonely man playboy in old age, passionate young woman who was forced to sell his honor for mothers and support their younger siblings, poor students who persuaded the radical Islamic movements, like the corrupt politicians who casually quotes the Koran to justify every action, beautiful widow who volunteered to be mistress, and a prominent newspaper editor who falls in love with the same sex to a soldier's life style is miskin.Aneka leads to a startling end in this book. Spoken with lively language and simple, this novel is a window to understand love and sacrifice in the modern urban world. With a charming and heartfelt, Jeffrey Lang scan lethargy and tried to respond earlier. He tried to answer the complaint of the generation of Muslims and converts, as well as detractors claim Islam. According to him, to reach the true faith, we must free ourselves from tradition and examine our beliefs rationally. Many methods used in the Qur'an encourages us to approach the faith in God is rational! He also stressed the importance of open discussion of issues that many felt uncomfortable in the Muslim community, with the advanced attitude is, objectively, and did not flinch from controversy. This book examines many of the questions posed that are considered taboo in the mosque or religious forums conservative. He embraced Muslim voices who are alienated from the mosque, for restore fitness in attracting the Muslim community and make the descent and engage new members. Apparently, a lot of pen in this book that ended question with concerns they considered atheistic or subversive to the Lord. This means, they ask because they still believe, need a convincing reason, and enable the mind to approach their faith in God.
000.000.000.004 Ayat Ayat Cinta (indonesian version)
Ayat Ayat Cinta is a beautifully portrayed Islamic love story a tale of a virtuous Muslim protagonist who overcomes all obstacles of life maintaining pure ideals.
Fahri bin Abdillah is a poor, intelligent student who wins a scholarship to complete his graduate degree at Egypt's esteemed Al Azhar University. Very disciplined and dedicated by nature, Fahri embraces his life in Cairo, completing his studies and translation of religious books with full enthusiasm, exactly according to pre-determined targets.
Only one goal is left unattempted: the pursuit of marriage.
For Fahri is innocent and pure, and doesn't believe in the concept of relationships prior to marriage. He is inarticulate and shy around women. All his life, only two women have been close to him his mother and grandmother.
Life changes drastically in Egypt for he suddenly finds himself surrounded by four beautiful, distinctly different women.
Maria Girgis, a shy, open-minded Coptic-Christian neighbor who is attracted to the teachings of the Holy Al Quran, finds herself falling in love with Fahri (a fact she only reveals to her diary).
Nurul, a student at Al Azhar like Fahri, is the Muslim daughter of a renowned Indonesian cleric. Fahri feels unworthy of her and thus ignores his feelings for her, leaving her confused and guessing.
Noura, an abused Egyptian neighbor, develops strong romantic feelings for Fahri, who in turn simply sympathizes with her situation. His romantic rejection destroys her and eventually leads to a false accusation of rape.
Aisha, a German Turkish student in Cairo haunts Fahri with her beautiful eyes. Following an incident on the metro where Fahri defends her against narrow minded bigoted Muslims, both immediately develop feelings for each other.
As the story unravels, the protagonist makes the audience face the daunting decisions he himself faces, and forces us to marvel at his undying loyalty to the true ideals of Islam as he ultimately makes the choice of a lifetime.
Fahri bin Abdillah is a poor, intelligent student who wins a scholarship to complete his graduate degree at Egypt's esteemed Al Azhar University. Very disciplined and dedicated by nature, Fahri embraces his life in Cairo, completing his studies and translation of religious books with full enthusiasm, exactly according to pre-determined targets.
Only one goal is left unattempted: the pursuit of marriage.
For Fahri is innocent and pure, and doesn't believe in the concept of relationships prior to marriage. He is inarticulate and shy around women. All his life, only two women have been close to him his mother and grandmother.
Life changes drastically in Egypt for he suddenly finds himself surrounded by four beautiful, distinctly different women.
Maria Girgis, a shy, open-minded Coptic-Christian neighbor who is attracted to the teachings of the Holy Al Quran, finds herself falling in love with Fahri (a fact she only reveals to her diary).
Nurul, a student at Al Azhar like Fahri, is the Muslim daughter of a renowned Indonesian cleric. Fahri feels unworthy of her and thus ignores his feelings for her, leaving her confused and guessing.
Noura, an abused Egyptian neighbor, develops strong romantic feelings for Fahri, who in turn simply sympathizes with her situation. His romantic rejection destroys her and eventually leads to a false accusation of rape.
Aisha, a German Turkish student in Cairo haunts Fahri with her beautiful eyes. Following an incident on the metro where Fahri defends her against narrow minded bigoted Muslims, both immediately develop feelings for each other.
As the story unravels, the protagonist makes the audience face the daunting decisions he himself faces, and forces us to marvel at his undying loyalty to the true ideals of Islam as he ultimately makes the choice of a lifetime.
000.000.000.005 Benteng Digital (indonesian version)
Ultra-secret NSA (National Security Agency) is responsible for monitoring and protecting U.S. communications. Its secret weapon is the multi-billion dollar supercomputer called TRANSLTR which can instantly decode any encrypted message in cyberspace, allowing the NSA to stop numerous terrorist threats, some of them nuclear. Secret weapon is a multi-billion dollar TRANSLTR called supercomputers that can directly decode any encrypted messages in cyberspace, which allows the NSA to stop the terrorist threat, some of them nuclear. TRANSLTR can decode almost instantly any message sent and intercepted anywhere in the world over the Internet - until now. When TRANSLTR meets a code it can not break, the agency calls in its top cryptographer Susan Fletcher, a beautiful and brilliant mathematical genius, and her fiancé, David Becker, a professor and foreign language specialist who has assisted the NSA before. TRANSLTR can decode almost instantly every message sent and intercepted anywhere in the world via the Internet - until now. When meeting with TRANSLTR code can not break, the agency calls in top cryptographer Susan Fletcher, a beautiful and brilliant mathematical genius, and her fiance, David Becker, a professor and a foreign language expert who has helped the NSA before. While Becker is dispatched to Spain to retrieve the password to the new code which disappeared after Tankado's murder, she starts to dig into the origins of the mysterious code known as Digital Fortress, finding layers upon layers of shocking secrets, lies and betrayals. While Becker was sent to Spain to retrieve the password for the new code that disappeared after the murder Tankado, she began exploring the origins of the mysterious code known as Digital Fortress, found upper layer surprising secrets, lies and betrayal. Programmed by computer genius Ensei Tankado, Digital Fortress could literally topple the U.S. government and open the world to terrorist Annihilation. Programmed by a computer genius Tankado, Digital Fortress could actually overthrow the U.S. government and opened the world for the destruction of terrorists. Tankado is blackmailing the U.S. Government from his grave and the race is on to find Tankado and break the code before the U.S. government's entire security system is irretrievably breached giving terrorists access to everything including nuclear missile launch codes. Tankado is blackmailing the U.S. government from his grave and the race to find Tankado and breaking codes before the U.S. government's entire security system provides irretrievably broken terrorists access to everything including a nuclear missile launch codes. Digital Fortress is an exciting and thought-provoking debut from author Dan Brown. Digital Fortress is interesting and thought-provoking debut from writer Dan Brown. With nonstop action, intrigue and a fascinating plot Digital Fortress is an example of the techno-thriller at its very best. But what makes Digital Fortress stand out from the crowd are its other elements: a real love story and an examination of the Struggles between right and wrong and protection of the public versus the preservation of that same public's privacy. With non-stop action, intrigue and an interesting storyline Digital Fortress is an example of the techno-thriller in the best part. But what makes Digital Fortress stood out from the crowd it was the other elements: a real love story and examination of the struggle between right and wrong and the protection of the public versus the same preservation privacy public. The issues raised in Digital Fortress concerning privacy of communications and the very real threat of terrorism will have readers thinking about Digital Fortress long after they have put the book down. Brown does an excellent job at presenting technological wizardry and cutting-edge intelligence information in such a way so as to please techno lovers and yet make the complex subject of encryption are interesting and easy to understand. A must read for lovers of intrigue, Thrillers and for anyone who loves an exciting story with a complex, layered plot and intriguing characters. The issues raised in the Digital Fortress and privacy of communication is a very real threat of terrorism will have readers thinking about Digital Fortress long after they've put the book down. Brown did an excellent job presenting the magic of technology and sophisticated intelligence information in such a way so to please lovers of techno and has not making a complex topic encryption interesting and easily understood. With a charming and heartfelt, Jeffrey Lang scan lethargy and tried to respond earlier. He tried to answer the complaint of the generation of Muslims and converts, as well as detractors claim Islam. According to him, to reach the true faith, we must free ourselves from tradition and examine our beliefs rationally. Many methods used in the Qur'an encourages us to approach the faith in God is rational! He also stressed the importance of open discussion of issues that many felt uncomfortable in the Muslim community, with the advanced attitude is, objectively, and did not flinch from controversy. This book examines many of the questions posed that are considered taboo in the mosque or religious forums conservative. He embraced Muslim voices who are alienated from the mosque, for restore fitness in attracting the Muslim community and make the descent and engage new members. Apparently, a lot of pen in this book that ended question with concerns they considered atheistic or subversive to the Lord. This means, they ask because they still believe, need a convincing reason, and enable the mind to approach their faith in God.
