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Beauty Is a Wound
Best fiction of 2015 (2015-11-22)

Eka Kurniawan, Beauty is a Wound .  It’s been called the Garcia Marquez of Indonesia, and it is one of the country’s classic novels, newly translated into English.  Here is a good NYT review .

What I’ve been reading (2015-10-18)

4. Eka Kurniawan, Beauty is a Wound .  It’s been called the Garcia Marquez of Indonesia, and it is one of the country’s classic novels, newly translated into English.  Here is a good NYT review .

Economics in Jonathan Franzen’s *Purity* (2015-09-03)

Overall, after sixty-one pages of reading, I would not dissuade the eager, nor would I attempt to convert the skeptical.  I am closer to the latter group, as the main theme, described by Sam Tanenhaus as “the false idolatry of the digital age,” is too close to my daily life to interest me further; it’s Raskolnikov, Captain Ahab, and Colonel Kurtz for me.  It is Beauty is a Wound , by Eka Kurniawan from Indonesia, that I am waiting for: “ There is much dying in the novel .”

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