Ganesha Bookshop

13/09/2026

Free Books again today.
Please share the love of reading.

We are open every day from 9am till 6pm.
Come in and browse our book collection.

12/09/2026

NEW RELEASE

TIME, RITES, ART AND MAGIC
Jean Couteau, and Georges Breguet
Illustrations I Gusti Nyoman Darta

This unique book describes the concept of time in Bali and the magical significance of religious rites and festivals that are bewilderingly complex yet endlessly intriguing. Authors Jean Couteau and Georges Breguet begin by unraveling the difficult Balinese calendar and making it accessible. This calendar forms the basis for an elaborate cycle of celebrations held at regular intervals which help the Balinese to mediate between the human realm and the unseen world of ancestors, gods, demons and spirits.

Lavish purification rituals, offerings, divination, dances, music, theater, art and trance spectacles are the result—all described here in loving detail. This book is richly illustrated with 62 specially commissioned drawings by Balinese artist I Gusti Nyoman Darta and a selection of color photographs of the most important rituals along with detailed painted Balinese calendars from museum collections around the world.

Rp448,000

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06/09/2026

05/09/2026

Our used spirituality books today.
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02/09/2026

BAMBOO

Gently used
Soft cover
Rp350,000

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01/09/2026

Delighted to have the English translation of the very popular Indonesian book Koloni.

COLONY

by Ratih Kumala

Translated by Dalih Sembiring

In the vast underground world of ants, every life serves the colony. Queens give birth to the future. Workers labour without rest. Soldiers defend the nest. And generation after generation, the cycle endures. 

When a catastrophe destroys her home, the young queen Darojak finds refuge in a foreign colony ruled by the formidable Queen Gegana. What begins as survival soon draws her into a struggle over power, succession, and the future of the nest itself. 

As old loyalties harden and new ambitions emerge, Darojak discovers that every colony is built on inherited stories—of duty, sacrifice, fear, and control. 

The queens may change, but the conflicts remain

New rp 305,000

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29/08/2026

New from Penguin Classics

OLENKA
By Budi Darma
Translated by Tiffany Tsao

A new English translation of an existential tale of obsession by Indonesia’s celebrated writer of absurdist realism

A Penguin Classic

In Bloomington, Indiana, Fanton Drummond’s life changes when he encounters Olenka Danton in an elevator. Infatuated at first sight, Fanton begins to see Olenka everywhere, from bus stops and parks to the imagined settings of his mind’s eye. Soon they begin an affair, and Fanton steps deeper into Olenka’s mysterious world. But one day, Olenka vanishes. Fanton’s subsequent search for Olenka becomes an existential journey filled with tragicomic twists and introspective musings on the meaning of life, all through which Fanton realizes that he knows little about Olenka, and even less about himself.

With prose characteristic of Albert Camus by way of David Lynch, Budi Darma foregrounds the absurd monotony of everyday life—and the meaninglessness it masks. Newly translated into English by PEN Translation Prize winner Tiffany Tsao, the novel, layered with literary and visual references, blurs realism and absurdism, fact and fiction, tragic and comic, to probe the human condition and pinpoint our common plight.

New
Rp358,000

27/08/2026

Gentlu used
Boxed set
Rp650,000

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23/08/2026

Sunday at Ganesha Bookshop means

Free Books on the stand outside

Restocking our used book shelves

Visits from friends and returning customers

We love Sundays!

21/08/2026

THE TEACHINGS OF AUROBINDO

Gently used
Soft cover
1135 pages
Rp320,000

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