Skip to content

Booksellers & Trade Customers: Sign up for online bulk buying at trade.atlanticbooks.com for wholesale discounts

Booksellers: Create Account on our B2B Portal for wholesale discounts

Lost in Jakarta

by Mark Medley
Save 2% Save 2%
Current price ₹862.00
Original price ₹882.00
Original price ₹882.00
Original price ₹882.00
(-2%)
₹862.00
Current price ₹862.00

Imported Edition - Ships in 18-21 Days

Free Shipping in India on orders above Rs. 500

Request Bulk Quantity Quote
+91
Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798224330959
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Timescape Books Asia
  • Publisher Imprint: Timescape Books Asia
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 66
  • Original Price: USD 8.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 177 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Asia / Southeast

Jakarta isn't just a city - it's a state of mind.


Lost in Jakarta is a literary memoir of life, love, and quiet chaos inside Indonesia's vast and unforgiving capital.


Set among flooded streets, neon-lit malls, roadside kiosks, and crumbling colonial quarters, these interlinked stories observe a city shaped by contradiction. Wealth and poverty coexist without apology. Tradition collides daily with globalization. Beauty, ambition, superstition, and endurance are woven into ordinary lives.


Moving between the worlds of expatriates, office workers, street vendors, midnight butterflies, and the quietly resilient city streets, the book captures Jakarta as it is lived - not explained. From skin-whitening obsessions and motorbike fatalism to gossip, ghost stories, and love negotiated through malls and money, each piece reveals how people adapt, endure, and sometimes drift.


Written with restraint and empathy, Lost in Jakarta avoids easy judgments and romantic clich�s. Instead, it offers close observation, dry humor, and moments of unexpected tenderness in a city that can exhaust, seduce, and humble in equal measure.


This is not a guidebook, nor a confession. It is a portrait of a place - and of what it means to belong, even briefly, to a city that never quite reveals itself, yet lingers - unfinished - long after you leave.

Trusted for over 49 years

Family Owned Company

Secure Payment

All Major Credit Cards/Debit Cards/UPI & More Accepted

New & Authentic Products

India's Largest Distributor

Need Support?

Whatsapp Us