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Dias Novita Wuri - Birth Canal, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Birth Canal

Av Dias Novita Wuri

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A dazzling novella from a rising star of Indonesian literature that explores what it means to be a woman — whoever you are, wherever you are, and whenever it is in history and time.In today’s Jakarta, an unnamed man tells the story of his lifelong friend Nastiti, and what happened on the day she vanished. In the Dutch East Indies’ Semarang, a young Indo-Dutch girl, Rukmini, is captured by the Japanese military and is forced into prostitution. Years later, Arini travels to the Netherlands to share her mother’s dark past with a researcher.After the American occupation of Japan in WWII ends, a former war photographer revisits his memories of Hanako, the wife of a traumatised ex-Imperial soldier, but can’t escape his own darkness. And in present-day Osaka, a young Indonesian woman, Dara, haunted by her past and struggling to conceive, becomes obsessed with a Japanese porn star.Through these interconnected narratives, in stunning prose, Dias Novita Wuri explores generational legacies, lost loves, the damage that war does to men, and the damage that men do to women.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-07-13
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 12 mm
  • Vikt: 152 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Scribe Publications
  • Antal sidor: 160
  • Förlag: Scribe Publications
  • ISBN: 9781914484681
  • Utmärkelser: Short-listed for TA First Translation Prize 2024 (UK)
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Dias Novita Wuri was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1989. She graduated from Universitas Indonesia, majoring in Russian Language and Literature. In 2019, she earned a master’s degree in Comparative Literature from Queen Mary University of London. She has had short stories published in Indonesian newspapers since 2012. She has published two books, Jalan Lahir and Makramé, which was on the Khatulistiwa Literary Award longlist. She served as adviser in the literary section of the editorial board of jakartabeat.net.

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‘The ground beneath the reader is constantly shifting … Birth Canal jumps in time and moves between places of security and insecurity, hiding and transit, literal and metaphorical light and dark … In the end, this extraordinarily accomplished and profound novel, translated from Indonesian by the author, is about how difficult love can be, and how precious.’

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