Birth Canal
- Bib ID:
- 10000134
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Wuri, Dias Novita, 1989-, author
- Uniform Title:
- Jalan lahir. English
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
- Thumbnail
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2023
- 1 online resource (133 p.)
- File Characteristics:
- text file EPUB 746KB
- ISBN:
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- 1761385291
- 9781761385292
- Summary:
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This dazzling novella from a rising star of Indonesian literature explores generational legacies, lost loves, the damage that war does to men, and the damage that men do to women. In today's Jakarta, an unnamed man tells the story of his lifelong friend Nastiti, and what happened on the day she vanished. In the Dutch East Indies' Semarang, a young Indo-Dutch girl, Rukmini, is captured by the Japanese military and is forced into prostitution. Years later, Arini travels to the Netherlands to share her mother's dark past with a researcher. After the American occupation of Japan in WWII ends, a former war photographer revisits his memories of Hanako, the wife of a traumatised ex-Imperial soldier, but can't escape his own darkness. And in present-day Osaka, a young Indonesian woman, Dara, haunted by her past and struggling to conceive, becomes obsessed with a Japanese porn star. Full of surprising turns, and in stunning prose, Birth Canal tells the interwoven stories of women that span time and history.
- Notes:
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- Description based upon print version of record.
- General.
- Translated from Indonesian.
- Awards:
- Winner, Ayu Utami's "Rasa" Literary Prize, 2023.
- Subject:
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- Indonesian fiction -- Translations into English
- Intergenerational relations -- Fiction
- Interracial friendship -- Fiction
- Social conflict -- Fiction
- Fiction / Friendship
- Fiction / Historical / World War Ii
- Fiction / Women
- Fiction / World Literature / Asia (general)
- Fiction in translation
- Fiction: general & literary
- Historical fiction
- Indonesia
- Intergenerational relations
- Interracial friendship
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- Narrative theme: Interior life
- Narrative theme: Love & relationships
- Novella (Short Novel)
- Social conflict
- Indonesia -- Fiction
- Genre/Form:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2071 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2001
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1945
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