![novel kho ping hoo novel kho ping hoo](https://images.tokopedia.net/img/cache/300/VqbcmM/2021/6/27/23ed11c7-0004-430d-b0f8-878a133c0d3b.jpg)
![novel kho ping hoo novel kho ping hoo](https://images.tokopedia.net/img/cache/500-square/VqbcmM/2020/11/9/abb6ef79-27f2-472a-85fd-30ef9eb140e5.jpg)
Was this an attempt to reinterpret your nation’s story for a new generation of readers? Your novel weaves its way through Indonesia’s history, from the days of Dutch colonialism to the modern age of independence. So I started to write my first short story, and then my first novel. One day I read Hunger, a novel by the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, and that’s when I thought seriously about being a writer. It was only when I was at university that I had access to a great library, and I spent all my time there reading every classic I could find. I only read a small number of books and I wanted to read more, so I wrote them myself. I lived in a small coastal town with no bookstore or library. When I was still very young, maybe eleven years old, I wrote poems and stories, because I didn’t have anything else to do. It’s just a simple way for people to try to understand a writer. It’s not something to be either proud of or annoyed by.
![novel kho ping hoo novel kho ping hoo](https://www.minews.id/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Cerita-Silat-Kho-Ping-Hoo-yang-Paling-Dikenang.jpg)
Pramoedya himself used to be compared to Maxim Gorky or Steinbeck at some point in his career, and Marquez has been compared to William Faulkner or Juan Rulfo in the same way. It’s the same for any writer in the world, in every generation. If it’s not Pramoedya or Márquez, I’m compared to other writers. You have been compared to a number of Indonesia’s premier writing talents-namely Pramoedya-and various world literature greats, from Rushdie to Márquez. Inspired by such greats as Melville and Gogol, and newly translated from the Indonesian by Annie Tucker, Kurniawan’s extraordinary debut charts an epic journey through Indonesia’s turbulent history, lacing together history, satire, legend, humour and romance in a scathing critique of his young nation’s troubled past.Įka Kurniawan chatted with Text’s Alice Lewinsky about inspirations, famous comparisons and the new age of Indonesian literature.
NOVEL KHO PING HOO PRO
Eka Kurniawan may be a new face in world literature, but his epic novel Beauty Is a Wound would suggest an old pro at work.