{"product_id":"lost-in-jakarta-9798224330959","title":"Lost in Jakarta","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Mark Medley\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Timescape Books Asia\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Timescape Books Asia\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asia - Southeast\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJakarta isn't just a city - it's a state of mind.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLost in Jakarta is a literary memoir of life, love, and quiet chaos inside Indonesia's vast and unforgiving capital.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoving 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Timescape Books Asia","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47593050865815,"sku":"9798224330959","price":862.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798224330959.webp?v=1774980418","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/lost-in-jakarta-9798224330959","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}