Beauty is a wound
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The English-language debut of Indonesia's greatest young novelist, Eka Kurniawan. One afternoon on a weekend in May, Dewi Ayu rose from her grave after being dead for twenty-one years. So begins Beauty Is a Wound, an epic, sweeping, compulsively readable novel, combining history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. It is also a highly political book. Revolving around the beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters, various plotlines incorporate incest, murder, bestiality rape, insanity, monstrosity, and the often vengeful undead. Kurniawan's gleefully grotesque hyperbole functions as a scathing critique of his young nation's troubled past. The rapacious offhand greed of colonialism; the chaotic struggle for independence; the 1965 mass murders of perhaps a million "Communists," and the three decades of Suharto's despotic rule that followed.
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Kurniawan, E., & Tucker, A. (2015). Beauty is a wound. New York, New Directions.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Kurniawan, Eka, 1975- and Annie, Tucker. 2015. Beauty Is a Wound. New York, New Directions.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Kurniawan, Eka, 1975- and Annie, Tucker, Beauty Is a Wound. New York, New Directions, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Kurniawan, Eka and Annie Tucker. Beauty Is a Wound. New York, New Directions, 2015.
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