Praise for Beauty is a Wound -- _ _ A literary child of Gunter Grass, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Salman Rushdie New York Review of Books Exuberant, funny, crackling with energy and invention Times An old-school gothic folk tale, full of dark magic, hyperbole and gratuitous violence Guardian, Books of the Year A howling masterpiece Chigozie Obioma, author of The Fishermen An unforgettable, all-encompassing epic... This is an astounding, momentous book Publishers Weekly (starred review) A Southeast Asian storyteller with a magnificent and effortless grasp of his material South China Morning Post Original and powerful... Maybe, who knows, the judges of the Nobel Prize could, in a few years, consider giving [Eka] the prize that Indonesia has never received Le Monde Kurniawan's story of an undead woman had morphed into the story of modern Indonesia, an epic novel critics are more wont to compare to One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Canterbury Tales Sydney Morning Herald Praise for Eka Kurniawan -- .. .. What good fortune that English-speaking readers may now find ourselves enchanted, confronted, and perhaps transformed by Kurniawan's work -- Hilary Plum Bookforum In terms of the literary novel, the year's most stirring revelation is Eka Kurniawan -- Jonathan Sturgeon Flavorwire Seems destined to join the ranks of our great storytellers like Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Hub The rising star of Indonesian fiction... Kurniawan's writing demonstrates an affinity with literary heavyweights such as, yes, Garcia Marquez and Dostoevsky -- Deborah Smith Guardian
