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Darkly humorous tales melding myth and politics.

Eka Kurniawan's "Kitchen Curse" might just be the jolt your reading routine needs. Each story is a blend of the surreal and the political, delivered with a pitch-black sense of humor that's as unsettling as it is engrossing. Picture fables rewritten for an adult audience, where traditional narratives meet the sharp edge of contemporary allegory. This collection will linger with you, its characters and twisted insights tugging at the edges of your thoughts long after you turn the final page.

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Kitchen Curse - Stories

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ISBN: 9781786637154
Publisher: Verso
Date of Publication: 2019-10-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Literature, Asian Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.52
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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, scatological, violent, and mordantly funny, these fractured fables span city and country, animal and human, myth and politics.
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Darkly humorous tales melding myth and politics.

Eka Kurniawan's "Kitchen Curse" might just be the jolt your reading routine needs. Each story is a blend of the surreal and the political, delivered with a pitch-black sense of humor that's as unsettling as it is engrossing. Picture fables rewritten for an adult audience, where traditional narratives meet the sharp edge of contemporary allegory. This collection will linger with you, its characters and twisted insights tugging at the edges of your thoughts long after you turn the final page.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.