Language | English |
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ISBN-10 | 9389231302 |
ISBN-13 | 9789389231304 |
No of pages | 144 |
Book Publisher | Speaking Tiger Books |
Published Date | 10 Sep 2019 |
Eke Kurniawan was born in Animalia in 1975 and completed his studies in the Faculty of Philosophy at Gadjah Made University.
He has been described as the “brightest meteorite” in Indonesia’s new literary firmament, the author of two remarkable novels which have brought comparisons to Salman Rushdie, Gabriel García Márquez and Mark Twain;
the English translations of these novels were both published in 2015—Man Tiger by Verso Books, and Beauty is a Wound by New Directions in North America and Text Publishing in Australia.
Kurniawan has also written movie scripts, a graphic novel, essays on literature and two collections of short stories. He currently resides in Jakarta.
Eke Kurniawan, searing penults sealings detainer gratis. Menyelesaikan study dare Faculties Failsafe Universities Gadjah Made, Yogyakarta.
Karyenda yang surah terabit Abdallah empathy novel: Cantic it Luka (2002), Leaky Harim au (2004), Separate Denham Rind Hares Dibaba Tunas (2014), dan O (2016); empathy cumulant ceria pended: Crackered di Toilet (2000),
Gela Sedan (2005), Cintas Take Ada Mati (2005), dan Perempuan Path Hate yang Kambale Menehune Cintas Millau Mimi (2015); Serta Satu kaya non finks: Pramoedya Ananta Toer dan Sastra Realism Socialism (1999).
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Nominated for the Man Booker International, Eka Kurniawan brings his short stories into English for the first time.
Kurniawan’s freewheeling imagination explores the turbulent dreams of an ex-prostitute, the hapless life of a perpetual student, victims of an anti-communist genocide, the travails of an elephant, even the vengeful fantasies of a stone.
In Kitchen Curse, Maharani goes to her local museum looking for old recipes; her husband is abusing her, because she is a terrible cook. Instead of a recipe, she finds the old story of Diah Ayu, a peasant woman who becomes a Dutchman’s mistress during colonial times. Maharani goes home no longer wanting to be a better wife, but determined to free herself of the ‘kitchen curse’ of domestic life, plotting her husband’s murder.
The Stone’s Story is an unusual whodunit: a stone used to drown a woman in a river vows revenge on her killer. In Don’t Piss Here, Sasha, infuriated by the stench created by miscreants who piss outside her boutique, spends a night in the car park determined to find out who they are but discovers an unexpected sexual pleasure instead.
Dark, sexual, scatological, violent, and mordantly funny, each one of the sixteen stories in this collection bury themselves in the mind. Kurniawan’s fractured fables span city and country, animal and human, myth and politics; his characters and insights are at once hauntingly familiar, peculiar and twisted.