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  • The Dog Meows, the Cat Barks

    by Eka Kurniawan ...
    Translated by Annie Tucker ...
    A swift, intense novel about a teen rebelling against forced religious conformity in a small Javanese town, The Dog Meows, the Cat Barks ponders that perpetual human question, can we ever really be free?Sato Reang enjoys an idyllic childhood of soccer, fighting crickets, and mischief in his Indonesian village—until the day he must be circumcised, and his observant father forces him into a life of ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Beauty Is a Wound

    by Eka Kurniawan ...
    Translated by Annie Tucker ...
    The English-language debut of Indonesia's rising star.The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. The beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by incest, murder, bestiality, rape, insanity, monstrosity, and the often vengeful undead. Kurniawan’s gleefully grotesque hyperbole functions as a ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Afflictions

    Steps Toward a Visual Psychological Anthropology

    by Robert Lemelson, Annie Tucker ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book is one of the first to integrate psychological and medical anthropology with the methodologies of visual anthropology, specifically ethnographic film. It discusses and complements the work presented in Afflictions: Culture and Mental Illness in Indonesia, the first film series on psychiatric disorders in the developing world, in order to explore pertinent issues in the cross-cultural ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Cigarette Girl

    by Ratih Kumala ...
    Translated by Annie Tucker ...
    Savour the familiar scent of clove and tobacco … for this is the aroma of Indonesia’s history. Soeraja is dying. On his deathbed he calls for Jeng Yah, a woman who is not his wife. His three sons, Lebas, Karim and Tegar – heirs to Kretek Djagad Raja, Indonesia’s largest clove cigarette empire – are shocked, and their mother is consumed by jealousy. So begins the brothers’ search into the deepest ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Kitchen Curse

    Stories

    by Eka Kurniawan ...
    Translated by Annie Tucker, Benedict Anderson, Maggie Tiojakin, Tiffany Tsao ...
    Nominated for the Man Booker International, Eka Kurniawan brings his short stories into English for the first timeEka Kurniawan’s freewheeling imagination explores the turbulent dreams of an ex-prostitute, the hapless life of a perpetual student, victims of an anticommunist genocide, the travails of an elephant, even the vengeful fantasies of a stone. Dark, sexual, scatological, violent, and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash

    by Eka Kurniawan ...
    Translated by Annie Tucker ...
    Vivid, bawdy, comic, and arresting, the exciting new novel by the Indonesian phenomenon, Eka KurniawanTold in short, cinematic bursts, Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash is gloriously pulpy. Ajo Kawir, a lower-class Javanese teenage boy excited about sex, likes to spy on fellow villagers in flagrante, but one night he ends up witnessing the savage rape of a beautiful crazy woman by two ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Widening the Frame with Visual Psychological Anthropology

    Perspectives on Trauma, Gendered Violence, and Stigma in Indonesia

    by Robert Lemelson, Annie Tucker ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book uses visual psychological anthropology to explore trauma, gendered violence, and stigma through a discussion of three ethnographic films set in Indonesia: 40 Years of Silence (Lemelson 2009), Bitter Honey (Lemelson 2015), and Standing on the Edge of a Thorn (Lemelson 2012). This exploration “widens the frame” in two senses. First, it offers an integrative analysis that connects the ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • How to Survive Middle School: U.S. History

    A Do-It-Yourself Study Guide

    by Annie Scavelli, Rebecca Ascher-Walsh ...
    Illustrated by Carpenter Collective ...
    Series series HOW TO SURVIVE MIDDLE SCHOOL books
    THINK U.S. HISTORY IS HARD? Make learning easy with this do-it-yourself study guide that includes everything kids need to know to tackle middle school U.S. History!Learning is an adventure both inside and outside of the classroom with the How to Survive Middle School study guide series!These colorful, highly visual books cover all the essential info kids need to ace important middle school classes ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • A House in the Sky

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  • The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

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  • Minds Make Societies

    How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

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