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Beauty Is a Wound

By Eka Kurniawan

Beauty Is a Wound

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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 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," followed by three decades of Suharto's despotic rule.
     Beauty Is a Wound astonishes from its opening line: One afternoon on a weekend in May, Dewi Ayu rose from her grave after being dead for twenty-one years....  Drawing on local sources-folk tales and the all-night shadow puppet plays, with their bawdy wit and epic scope-and inspired by Melville and Gogol, Kurniawan's distinctive voice brings something luscious yet astringent to contemporary literature.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
384
Release Date:
2015-09-08
Publication Date:
2015-09-08
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0811223639
ISBN13:
9780811223638
Weight:
529 g
Height:
136 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
35 cm
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