When so little of a country's literature has made its way to us in translation, it's tempting to read what does appear as "news from elsewhere," source material to help us understand Indonesia's history and politics. Yet that would be an injustice to the ambition and seduction of Kurniawan's novels, the reckoning they enact both with his country's violent twentieth century and with the form of the contemporary novel.
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