Eka Kurniawan, trans. from the Indonesian by Annie Tucker. New Directions, $19.95 trade paper (480p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2363-8
At the beginning of this English-language debut from Indonesian author Kurniawan, Dewi Ayu, who was once the most respected prostitute in the fictional coastal town of Halimunda, rises from her grave after being dead for two decades. She's returned...
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Eka Kurniawan, trans. from the Indonesian by Labodalih Sembiring. Verso (Random, dist.), $18.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-78168-859-5
Kurniawan makes his U.S. debut with this novel, along with the tour-de-force epic Beauty Is a Wound, also being published this fall. Tragic and imaginative, the story begins with the murder of Anwar Sadat, a known womanizer in a rural Indonesian...
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Eka Kurniawan, trans. from the Indonesian by Annie Tucker. New Directions, $15.95 trade paper (214p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2564-9
Kurniawan (Beauty Is a Wound) tells the ribald, noir-inflected, and oddly epic story of a man’s quest to regain his sexual virility. Teenage Javanese roughneck Ajo Kawir loses the use of his “little bird” after witnessing the rape of a widow by two...
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Eka Kurniawan, trans. from the Indonesian by Annie Tucker et al. Verso, $18.95 trade paper (137p) ISBN 978-1-78663-715-4
Kurniawan’s deadpan, incisive collection (after the novel Beauty Is a Wound) pares out the gruesome consequences of acting on misconceptions. In “Making an Elephant Happy,” childhood innocence becomes deadly, while in “Peter Pan,” a revolutionary...
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