Kitchen curse : stories / Eka Kurniawan ; translated by Annie Tucker and others.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Indonesian Publisher: New Delhi : Speaking Tiger, 2019Description: 137 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9789389231304 (paperback)
- Short stories. Selections. English
- 899.22133 KUR 23 017864
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Additional translations by Tiffany Tsao (Caronang), Maggie Tiojakin (Making an elephant happy), and Benedict Anderson (The otter amulet, Graffiti in the toilet)
Graffiti in the toilet -- Don't piss here -- Easing into a long sleep -- Caronang -- Rotten stench -- No crazies in this town -- Auntie -- Pigpen -- The otter amulet -- Dimples -- The stone's story -- My lipstick is red, darling -- Peter Pan -- Making an elephant happy -- Night watchman -- Kitchen curse.
"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. Eka Kurniawan's freewheeling imagination explores the turbulent dreams of an ex-prostitute, the hapless life of a perpetual student, victims of an anticommunist genocide, the travails of an elephant, even the vengeful fantasies of a stone. Dark, sexual, scatological, violent, and mordantly funny, these fractured fables span city and country, animal and human, myth and politics. Like nothing else, Kurniawan's stories bury themselves in the mind. His characters and insights are at once hauntingly familiar, peculiar, and twisted."--Publisher description.
Translated from the Indonesian.
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