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Kitchen Curse

January 25, 2020 by

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 … [Read more...]

Buru Island

January 5, 2020 by

Buru Island was the site of Indonesia’s most remote and infamous prison camp. In the wake of the 1965 repression of the political Left, between 1969 and 1979, approximately 12,000 men were held on Buru without formal charge or trial. During their detention prisoners suffered torture, forced … [Read more...]

Fall Baby

January 5, 2020 by

Awards: Best Literary Work at Singapore Book Awards 2020 It is a novel about the intricacies of art, religion, politics and history in a troubled Indonesia, but also about family, identity, motherhood, and the sisterhood of women. Fall Baby (Penguin Random House: September 2019) tells the … [Read more...]

Srimenanti

December 24, 2019 by

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Orang-Orang Oetimu

November 16, 2019 by

Portrait of a small fictional town on the island of Timor in eastern Indonesia. The book clearly stands out for its satirical wit, cyclical structure, and cohesive navigation of myriad perspectives. However, also remarkable is the way in which Nesi – himself originally from Timor—depicts the … [Read more...]