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Kitchen Curse

Eka Kurniawan
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The acclaimed, Booker-nominated novelist's first book of stories

Hailed as a Southeast Asian Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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 Prize. Here is his first collection of short stories—Indonesian literature's characteristic form—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.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
208 pages
Publication:
2019
Publisher:
Verso
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1786637154
ISBN13:
9781786637154
kindle Asin:
B07YNQL65Z

Kitchen Curse

Eka Kurniawan
3.51/5 (655 ratings)
Read Download
The acclaimed, Booker-nominated novelist's first book of stories

Hailed as a Southeast Asian Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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 Prize. Here is his first collection of short stories—Indonesian literature's characteristic form—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.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
208 pages
Publication:
2019
Publisher:
Verso
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1786637154
ISBN13:
9781786637154
kindle Asin:
B07YNQL65Z

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