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Two hopeless loves. The first one begins in a mood of sophisticated ease, at a chic Jakarta wine bar where seduction flows like champagne: Hadrian, a bored, lonely attorney, falls in with a woman with no name, no past, and many beguiling charms. Yet their affair soon becomes unimaginably complex, as the lady in question reveals herself to be tormented by powerful, inchoate passions which may not be entirely of this world. The other love is taboo, an obsession conceived in feverish secrecy by a man charged with carrying out the sentence of an ancient island curse. When Hadrian pursues his mysterious lover to a remote beachside village in Kalimantan, the two forbidden loves collide, and tragedy ensues, as madness and death fall like a silent scream from the unblemished azure sky.

The Rainmakers Daughter continues Richard Ohs bold series of novels exploring life and love, passion and betrayal, in Reformasi-era Indonesia. In the tradition of The Pathfinders of Love, Oh shows with unflinching realism how primordial passions seethe just below the surface of the modern nation, in a suspenseful tale that reaches out from the enclaves of Jakartas power elite to the remote corners of the tropical archipelago.The Rainmakers Daughter is required reading for anyone interested in discovering the inner life of the great island nation.

***"Richard Oh is a very good storyteller. He weaves the strands of myth and tradition, love and passion, ecology and social criticism, guilt and sacrifice, together into a fascinating tapestry."- Marianne Katoppo -

"Buku ini salah satu yang bertutur tentang kompleksitas cinta dengan latar yang menarik, karena memotret suasana metropolitan Jakarta dan budaya Kalimantan. Membaca buku ini, kita seperti dihipnotis. Rasanya seperti dipermainkan oleh alur cerita yang dibuat sedemikian rupa oleh sang penulis hingga kita tidak merasa sudah dipindah dari satu ruang waktu ke ruang waktu lainnya. Dari sebuah perenungan ke perenungan lainnya. Dari satu pikiran ke pikiran hingga ke pikiran lainnya. Rasa penasaran agaknya sengaja dimunculkan dengan pelan tapi pasti, seperti seorang dokter memasukkan serum lewat jarum suntik."- Dewi Magazine -

"The Rainmakers Daughter berkisah tentang dua cinta. Dua cinta yang berbeda. Metropolitan dan pedalaman. Modernisasi dan primodialisme. Konflik antar individu dan massal. Keilahian, mistisisme dan logika. Dilema. Cerminan Indonesia masa kini yang dilunturkan dalam bahasa Inggris."- Popcity Magazine -