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Beauty Is a Wound

AvEka Kurniawan

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

208 kr

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The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. The beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by incest, murder, bestiality, rape, insanity, monstrosity, and the often vengeful undead. Kurniawan’s gleefully grotesque hyperbole functions as a scathing critique of his young nation’s troubled past:the rapacious offhand greed of colonialism; the chaotic struggle for independence; the 1965 mass murders of perhaps a million “Communists,” followed by three decades of Suharto’s despotic rule.Beauty Is a Wound astonishes from its opening line: One afternoon on a weekend in May, Dewi Ayu rose from her grave after being dead for twenty-one years.... Drawing on local sources—folk tales and the all-night shadow puppet plays, with their bawdy wit and epic scope—and inspired by Melville and Gogol, Kurniawan’s distinctive voice brings something luscious yet astringent to contemporary literature.

Beauty is a Wound

AvEka Kurniawan

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

158 kr

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'Scandalous, lively, beautiful and dark' Jeff VanderMeer

'Exuberant, funny, crackling with invention' The Times

A colour-drenched, fantasy-tinged epic tale.

One stormswept afternoon, after twenty-one years of being dead, Dewi Ayu rises from her grave to avenge a curse placed on her family. Amidst the orange groves and starfruit trees, her children and grandchildren have been living out lives of madness, incest, murder and heartbreak. They are creatures of breathtaking beauty - all but one of them, whose ugliness is unparalleled.

And Beauty is her name.

Beauty Is a Wound is a bawdy, epic tale of fearsome women and weak-willed men, communist ghosts and chaste princesses. In this satirical portrait of Indonesia's painful past, Kurniawan weaves together history with local legend to spin a fantastical masterpiece in which darkness and light dance hand in hand.

Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe.

Translated by Annie Tucker

Eka Kurniawan was born in Tasikmalaya, Indonesia in 1975. He studied philosophy at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta and has since published several novels and short stories. The rights to Beauty is a Wound have now been sold in 27 territories. Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash is also available from Pushkin Press.

Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash

AvEka Kurniawan

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

157 kr

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Told in short, cinematic bursts, Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash is gloriously pulpy. Ajo Kawir, a lower-class Javanese teenage boy excited about sex, likes to spy on fellow villagers in flagrante, but one night he ends up witnessing the savage rape of a beautiful crazy woman by two policemen. Deeply traumatized, he becomes impotent. His efforts to get his virility back all fail, and Ajo Kawir turns to fighting as a way to vent his frustrations. He gets such a fearsome reputation as a brawler that he is hired to kill a thug named The Tiger, but instead Ajo Kawir falls in love with Iteung, a gorgeous female bodyguard who works for the local mafia. Alas, the course of true love never did run smooth… Fast-forward a decade. Now a truck driver, Ajo Kawir has reached a new equanimity, thinking that his penis may be trying to teach him a lesson and even consulting it in many situations as if it were his guru—love may yet triumph.Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash shows Eka Kurniawan in a gritty, comic, pungent mode that fans of Quentin Tarantino will appreciate. But even with its liberal peppering of fights, high-speed car chases, and ladies heaving with desire, the novel continues to explore Kurniawan’s familiar themes of female agency in a violent male world dominated by petty criminals and a corrupt police state.

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Dog Meows, the Cat Barks

AvEka Kurniawan

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

146 kr

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Sato Reang enjoys an idyllic childhood of soccer, fighting crickets, and mischief in his Indonesian village—until the day he must be circumcised, and his observant father forces him into a life of Islamic piety. For years, Sato outwardly obeys his father, but all the while the boy chafes at the strictures of his religious routine, longing for everyday pleasures and vowing to himself that he will “become a child who was not pious.” His freewheeling linked anecdotes—mixing worldliness and naïveté, cruelty and innocence—are narrated with a toggling between first and third person (“I”/“he” or "Sato Reang") that potently conveys his disassociation. His adolescent, hormone-fueled crotchetiness expresses dissent: I stopped going to mosque. I no longer joined in worship. I never said my prayers before bed. Sato Reang eats with his left hand—so stupid—and barges in where he pleases, without calling out a greeting. If I was feeling lazy, I’d just piss on a banana tree, and I wouldn’t wash myself off after. But amid various mysterious portents and even within the hilarity, Sato’s callow sang froid (with its undercurrents of pain and shame)—and his comic pranks—soon invite tragedy.A psychologically timeless story—anyone who’s ever had an overbearing parent and resented them will relate—The Dog Meows, the Cat Barks is Eka Kurniawan’s most contemporarily relevant book: he’s thinking about (and rejecting) militancy and moral certitude of any kind.

Kitchen Curse

Stories

AvEka Kurniawan

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

124 kr

Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar

Hailed as a Southeast Asian Gabriel García Márquez 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.

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Dog Meows, The Cat Barks

AvEka Kurniawan

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

135 kr

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'Brash, worldly and wickedly funny, Eka Kurniawan may be Southeast Asia's most ambitious writer in a generation' Economist

Once, Sato Reang's father tried to bully him into being a pious child. Now he's a little Devil.

He stops saying his prayers. He starts to run with the wild boys: drinking, fighting, stealing. He eats his fill of life, barges in where he pleases. Maybe he'll burn down the school...

If only Jamal, his strictly religious schoolmate, would join him. Sato intends to lead him astray and introduce him to worldly pleasures. Even if the consequences are darker than he could have imagined.

Devilishly funny and delicately moving, The Dog Meows, the Cat Barks is a lightning strike of a coming-of-age novel.

Man Tiger

A Novel

AvEka Kurniawan

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

181 kr

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Set in a small town on the Indonesian coast, Man Tiger tells the story of two interlinked and tormented families and of Margio, a young man ordinary in all particulars except that he conceals within himself a supernatural female white tiger. The inequities and betrayals of family life coalesce around and torment this magical being. An explosive act of violence follows, and its mysterious cause is unravelled as events progress toward a heartbreaking revelation.Lyrical and bawdy, experimental and political, this extra-ordinary novel announced the arrival of a powerful new voice on the global literary stage.

Schönheit ist eine Wunde

AvEka Kurniawan

Häftad, Tyska, 2019

182 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

Indonesien berättar : tusen gevärskulor, tusen fjärilar - nitton noveller

AvPramoedya Ananta Toer,Raudal Tanjung Banuam. fl.

Häftad, Svenska, 2019

258 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

Tusen gevärskulor, tusen fjärilar ger inte bara en introduktion till den indonesiska novellen idag utan presenterar även de författare som var med och lade grunden till det moderna indonesiska litteraturprojektet i början av nittonhundratalet. Boken tar oss med in i det myllrande öriket Indonesien: vi får bland annat möta en bussresenär som störs av ett visslande, och statyer i ett frihetsmonument som vaknar till liv på natten och mobiliserar sig för att undgå rivning. Här finns också den gamle krokodiljägaren som möter den stora krokodilen i en sista uppgörelse, och många fler fängslande ögonblick och öden. Novellkonsten har en stark ställning i Indonesien och efterträder en muntlig berättartradition. Dagspressen är novellens huvudsakliga arena och de flesta av antologins noveller har först publicerats i tidningarnas söndagsupplagor. De samtida novellerna gestaltar en nutid som går mot öppenhet, på en våg färgad av politisk turbulens, naturkatastrofer och motsättningar mellan den stora önationens många olika folk och traditioner, men också stark och innerlig kärlek. Stilmässigt rör de sig mellan strikt realism och pamflettskrivande, surrealism och en magisk realism som växer ur den egna jorden.

Love Never Dies

AvEka Kurniawan

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

186 kr

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Eka Kurniawan – författare

Beauty Is a Wound

Beauty is a Wound

Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash

Dog Meows, the Cat Barks

Kitchen Curse

Dog Meows, The Cat Barks

Man Tiger

Schönheit ist eine Wunde

Indonesien berättar : tusen gevärskulor, tusen fjärilar - nitton noveller

Love Never Dies

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