In this article The Dog Meows, The Cat Barks Eka Kurniawan
originally published in Kirkus Reviews
Feb 15, 2026
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originally published in Kirkus Reviews
Feb 15, 2026
A pensive portrait of rural anomie.
Kurniawan, the first Indonesian writer to be longlisted for the International Booker Prize, is a deeply learned student of his nation’s troubled recent past, when the army, declaring martial law, executed as many as a million Communists. This morality tale is set years later, the government now busy battling Islamists.
Kurniawan, the first Indonesian writer to be longlisted for the International Booker Prize, is a deeply learned student of his nation’s troubled recent past, when the army, declaring martial law, executed as many as a million Communists. This morality tale is set years later, the government now busy battling Islamists.
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