Beauty Is a Wound Apte, Poornima
Booklist,
09/2015, Letnik:
112, Številka:
2
Book Review
Beauty is a wound-and a curse. Arguably nobody knows this better than Dewi Ayu, the larger-than-life anchor of Kurniawan's glorious English-language debut.
Schafer reviews BEAUTY IS A WOUND by Eka Kurniawan and translated by Annie Tucker and MAN TIGER by Eka Kurniawan and translated by Labodalih Sembiring.
A Slacker of Jakarta Kurniawan, Eka
The New York times magazine,
10/2015
Magazine Article
Kurniawan details what happen when her religious mother comes to stay for a while. In general he was happy that she lived closer to them, and his five-year-old daughter was delighted. But her ...presence did disrupt her secular lifestyle, and it wasn't just the business about praying five times a day.
In Xilonen's provocative debut, a streamof-consciousness mash-up of a latter-day Oliver Twist and the movie Nacho Libre, tenacious Liborio survives abuse and violence and finds salvation in boxing, ...love, and books.Depestre's richly metaphoric, ribald, fantastical, and haunting novel, set in his Haitian hometown, Jacmel, during the carnival season of 1938, involves a beautiful bride, a villain who metamorphoses into a butterfly, a zombie, hurricanes, class and color divides, and the contrast between vodou and traditional Christianity.Moroccan French author Slimani ushers readers into a veritable crime scene in a Paris apartment, then flashes back to portray a mother of two, her husband, and their highly recommended nanny.
