Instructions for Killing the Past and other Stories

By Karta Kusumah (author), Mary Zurbuchen (translator)

Short Description:

Instructions for Killing the Past is a very playfully funny and absurd collection of short-stories that mostly seem to center around an ambiguous ‘Ivan’ figure. These stories entail an openness about serial masturbation following profound hallucinatory story-telling about nature, a dark, macabre love between a man and a bird and confessional self-help instructions that was probably intended for the author all along.

About the Author:

Karta Kusumah is a playwright, poet and short-story writer born in Palembang, South Sumatra in 1988. His stories have appeared in many print media and anthologies as well as in his recently published collection, Panduan Membunuh Masa Lalu, (Erka Publishing, 2016).