Eka Kurniawan - Böcker

A colour-drenched epic set in Indonesia, filled with vivid sex and violence, from the Man Booker International Prize longlisted author 'A literary child of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie'New York Review of Books</i> 'A howling mas...

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Told in short, cinematic bursts, Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash is gloriously pulpy. Ajo Kawir, a lower-class Javanese teenage boy excited about sex, likes to spy on fellow villagers in flagrante, but one night he ends up witnessing the sa...

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En av årets bästa böcker enligt: Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, New York Times, Harpers Bazaar, Oprah's Book Club, Flavorwire, Reading, Flavorwire, Literary Hub En eftermiddag i mars månad reser sig Dewi Ayu ur sin grav efter att...

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The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. The beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by incest, murder, bestiality, rape, insanity, m...

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"After half a century," writes renowned Indonesia scholar Benedict Anderson, "Pramoedya Ananta Toer has found a successor." Eka Kurniawan has been described as the "brightest meteorite" in Indonesia's new literary fir...

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A wry, affecting tale set in a small town on the Indonesian coast, Man Tiger tells the story of two interlinked and tormented families and of Margio, a young man ordinary in all particulars except that he conceals within himself a supernatural fem...

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A colour-drenched epic, filled with vivid sex and violence, from Indonesia's most exciting young authorThe epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humour, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. The beautiful In...

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Ajo Kawir is one of the toughest fighters in the Javanese underworld, his fearlessness matched only by his unquenchable thirst for brawling. But the young thug is driven by a painful secret - he is impotent. When he finally meets his match in the ...

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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 International Prize. Here is his...

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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 International Prize. Here is his...

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Einundzwanzig Jahre nach ihrem Tod erhebt sich Dewi Ayu aus ihrem Grab. Die einstmals beliebteste Prostituierte Halimundas findet, es sei an der Zeit, ihre jüngste Tochter kennenzulernen. Wieder in der Welt der Lebenden, muss sie feststellen, dass...

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Einundzwanzig Jahre nach ihrem Tod erhebt sich Dewi Ayu aus ihrem Grab. Die einstmals beliebteste Prostituierte Halimundas findet, es sei an der Zeit, ihre jungste Tochter kennenzulernen. Wieder in der Welt der Lebenden, muss sie feststellen, dass...

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Vinnare av Financial Times Emerging Voices Fiction Award Nominerad till Man Booker International   En vindpinad dag i en liten indonesisk kuststad blir den kände konstnären och kvinnotjusaren Anwar Sadat mördad på det mest bestialiska sätt. M...

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"Suurempaa kirousta ei ole kuin synnyttää kauniita tyttöjä maailmaan, jossa miehet ovat häijyjä kiimaisia koiria", ajattelee indonesialainen prostituoitu Dewi Ayu saatuaan jälleen tyttären, kietoutuu käärinliinaan ja ryhtyy odottamaan kuolemaa. 21...

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