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Beautiful Eyes (Kompas Best Short Stories 2001)

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"......I imagined I would find stories that created new sets of metaphors like this among the best stories from Kompas. Then, I came to 'A Visit to the Souls of the Babies' by Indra Tranggono and 'Umairah' by Yanusa Nugroho. These two stories contain characters, who seem to live for the most part at night ......."
- Hanif Amini.

"In presenting a slice, eleven of the `6 short stories selected for inclusion in this collection, consciously or not, concern violence ............. In four of the eleven stories that contain elements of violence as a symptom of social 'entropy', this brutaality is suffered by women or at least affect the life of a woman .........."
- Alois A. Nugroho.

Selected writers: AA. Navis, Budi Darma, Cok Sawitri, Gus if Sakai, Harris Effendi Thahar, Herlino Soleman, Indra Tranggono, Jujur Prananto, K. Usman, Martin Aleida, Ratna Indraswari Ibrahim, Sori Siregar, Umar Kayam, Veven Sp Wardhana, Wilson Nadeak, Yanusa Nugroho.

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Series Title

Kumpulan Cerpen Kompas

Call Number

808.31 BEA

Publisher

Jakarta : PT. Kompas Media Nusantara., 2001

Collation

xlii, 194 p.; ilus.; 21 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

979-9251-95-8

Classification

808.31

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Edition

Cet. 1, 2001

Subject(s)

Kumpulan cerpen

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