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  • The Dog Meows, the Cat Barks

    by Eka Kurniawan ...
    Translated by Annie Tucker ...
    A swift, intense novel about a teen rebelling against forced religious conformity in a small Javanese town, The Dog Meows, the Cat Barks ponders that perpetual human question, can we ever really be free?Sato Reang enjoys an idyllic childhood of soccer, fighting crickets, and mischief in his Indonesian village—until the day he must be circumcised, and his observant father forces him into a life of ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Beauty Is a Wound

    by Eka Kurniawan ...
    Translated by Annie Tucker ...
    The English-language debut of Indonesia's rising star.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, monstrosity, and the often vengeful undead. Kurniawan’s gleefully grotesque hyperbole functions as a ... Read more

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  • Man Tiger

    A Novel

    by Eka Kurniawan ...
    Translated by Labodalih Sembiring ...
    An unforgettable tale of literary magical realism from a critically acclaimed Indonesian writer who has been compared to Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Mark TwainLonglisted for the International Man Booker, this “supernatural tale of murder and desire fascinatingly subverts the crime fiction genre” as it tells the story of a half-man, half-magical female white tiger (Huffington Post) ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash

    by Eka Kurniawan ...
    Translated by Annie Tucker ...
    Vivid, bawdy, comic, and arresting, the exciting new novel by the Indonesian phenomenon, Eka KurniawanTold 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 savage rape of a beautiful crazy woman by two ... Read more

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  • Kitchen Curse

    Stories

    by Eka Kurniawan ...
    Translated by Annie Tucker, Benedict Anderson, Maggie Tiojakin, Tiffany Tsao ...
    Nominated for the Man Booker International, Eka Kurniawan brings his short stories into English for the first timeEka Kurniawan’s freewheeling imagination explores the turbulent dreams of an ex-prostitute, the hapless life of a perpetual student, victims of an anticommunist genocide, the travails of an elephant, even the vengeful fantasies of a stone. Dark, sexual, scatological, violent, and ... Read more

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  • Proceedings of the Fifth Sriwijaya University Learning and Education International Conference (SULE-IC 2022)

    Edited by Meilinda, Jeri Araiku, Saparini, Meryansumayeka, Elika Kurniadi, Weni Dwi Pratiwi, Dedi Kurniawan, Dian Eka Amrina, Muhammad Akbar Budiman ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This is an open access book. The 5th Sriwijaya University Learning and Education International Conference (5th SULE-IC 2022) was held on October 5, 2022 in Palembang, South Sumatera, Indonesia. Palembang is a historic city located on the island of Sumatera. It was the capital of the Empire of Sriwijaya. During the glory of the Empire, it was one of the major learning centers in Asia. To continue ... Read more

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  • Development, Social Change and Environmental Sustainability

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  • Social and Political Issues on Sustainable Development in the Post Covid-19 Crisis

    Proceedings of the International Conference on Social and Political Issues on Sustainable Development in the Post Covid-19 Crisis (ICHSOS 2021), Malang, Indonesia, 18-19 June 2021

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