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Kitchen curse
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- Book Synopsis
- Hailed as a Southeast Asian Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez for the exuberant beauty of his prose and the darkly comic surrealism of his stories, Eka Kurniawan is the first Indonesian writer to be nominated for a Man Booker International Prize. Here is his first collection of short stories to be translated into English. A man captures a caronang, a strange, intelligent dog that walks upright, and brings it home, only to provoke an all-too-human outcome. A girl plots against a witch doctor whose crimes against her are, infuriatingly, like any other man's. Stories explore the turbulent dreams of an ex-prostitute, a perpetual student, victims of anti-communist genocide, an elephant, a stone. Dark, sexual, scatalogical, violent, and mordantly funny, these fractured fables span city and country, animal and human, myth and politics.
- About The Author
- Eka Kurniawan was born in Tasikmalaya, Indonesia in 1975. He studied philosophy at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta. He has published several novels, including Beauty Is a Wound and Kitchen Curse.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781786637154
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Verso, (01 October 2019)
- Number of Pages
- 144
- Weight
- 134 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 10.4 mm
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