Kitchen Curse - Stories (Paperback)

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 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.

General

Imprint:	Verso Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2019
Authors:	Eka Kurniawan
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	144
ISBN-13:	978-1-78663-715-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories Promotions Books > Fiction > Promotions
LSN:	1-78663-715-4
Barcode:	9781786637154

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