- Families, Speculative fiction, Prostitutes, Mothers and daughters
"The English-language debut of Indonesia's greatest young novelist, Eka Kurniawan: "without a doubt the most original, imaginatively profound, and elegant writer of fiction in Indonesia today: its brightest and most unexpected meteorite" (Benedict Anderson).
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Epic, overwhelming, prestige and bleak.
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Eka Kurniawan
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 470
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780811223638
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