Jefri Tarigan
In this article: Eka Kurniawan
Written by Jewel Topsfield, and was originally published in Sydney Morning Herald
Aug 22, 2015
Written by Jewel Topsfield, and was originally published in Sydney Morning Herald
Aug 22, 2015
When Eka Kurniawan began Beauty is a Wound more than 13 years ago, he wanted to write about an undead woman.
Kurniawan had grown up on a diet of "sastra picisan" in Pangandaran, a small city in West Java. It's hard to translate "sastra picisan" - Google Translate amusingly hazards "literary hack" - but essentially it's pulp fiction filled with violence and sex.
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