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Reviewed on October 1, 2019 | Fiction
Kurniawan, the first Man Booker International Prize-nominated Indonesian writer (he was long-listed in 2016 for Man Tiger), here makes his collection-in-English debut, with the majority of the 16 stories translated by Tucker, his PEN/Heim Translation Fund-awarded Beauty Is a Wound translator; three of the 16 stories are anglophoned by Tiffany Tsao, Maggie Tiojakin, and Benedict Anderson. The strongest story here is the last one, the titular "Kitchen Curse," a darkly hysterical cautionary tale about an abused w...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
