![]() ![]() Again, the story is set in provincial Indonesia and focuses on women, sex, violence, and supernatural happenings. So, back to Indonesia we go, and first up is a writer we encountered not too long ago, with a familiar, but shocking, story of love and death – and the animal nature of both…Įka Kurniawan’s Beauty is a Wound is an epic early novel, but while his follow up, Man Tiger (translated by Labodalih Sembiring, review copy courtesy of Verso Books), is a much shorter story, it’s recognisably the work of the same writer. Unfortunately (!) my efforts with German Literature Month got in the way of that idea, but now that November is finished, I’m free to look at some more non-Teutonic works. ![]() ![]() After my trio of reviews back in October celebrating Indonesia’s role as guest of honour at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, I fully intended to look at some more of the country’s fiction. ![]()
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