A Writer’s Haunting Trip Through the Horrors of Indonesian History

A Writer’s Haunting Trip Through the Horrors of Indonesian History

Eka Kurniawan’s “Beauty Is a Wound” and “Man Tiger,” which have just been translated into English, tell of generations in Indonesia bound by unspeakable tragedies.Photograph by Marc Riboud / Magnum “When you’re reading a novel like mine,” Eka Kurniawan said last month, over coffee, you’re reading “a joke about history.” We were at a hotel … Read more