No Asian culture is more steeped in the rituals and power of magic as Indonesia. In his debut novel, Indonesian-born author Erick Setiawan presents a bewitching but modern fantasy world in which two feuding families live in horribly haunted houses full of spirits and spells. Yet their lives are ruled by universal values — love, desire, loss and pain — firmly rooted in human emotions.
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Muslim true/false
As blogger Scott Adams aptly put it, ask a devout Christian who he’d rather live next to–a bearded Muslim possibly plotting an attack or an atheist possibly skilled at setting up wireless networks–and the answer would be clear: The Christian will pick the atheist over the Muslim.
