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Eka Kurniawan: Beauty is a wound (2015)

"The English-language debut of Indonesia's greatest young novelist, Eka Kurniawan: "without a doubt the most …

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2.5, really. More thoughts to come. It's a big topic and the way he flits from one angle to the next is fascinating, but at the same time...

"Your women characters are awful. None of them have anything to say for themselves, and most of them either get shot or stabbed to death within five minutes... and the ones that don't probably will later on."
"Well... it's a hard world for women. You know? I guess that's what I'm trying to say."
"Yeah, it's a hard world for women, but most of the ones I know can string a sentence together!"
- Seven Psychopaths