Kitchen Curse: Stories

The acclaimed, Booker-nominated novelist's first book of stories

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 Prize. Here is his first collection of short stories--Indonesian literature's characteristic form--to be translated into English.

A man captures a caronang, a strange, intelligent dog that walks upright, and brings it home, only to provoke an all-too-human outcome. A girl plots against a witch doctor whose crimes against her are, infuriatingly, like any other man's. Stories explore the turbulent dreams of an ex-prostitute, a perpetual student, victims of anti-communist genocide, an elephant, a stone. Dark, sexual, scatalogical, violent, and mordantly funny, these fractured fables span city and country, animal and human, myth and politics.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Verso Fiction
Published: 10/01/2019
ISBN: 9781786637154
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.40d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2019
Library Journal 10/01/2019 pg. 94
Publishers Weekly 12/16/2019