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Beauty Is A Wound Eka Kurniawan

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Beauty Is A Wound Eka Kurniawan
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Publisher: New Directions
File Extension: EPUB
File size: 1.56 MB
Author: Eka Kurniawan
ISBN: 9780811223638, 9780811223645, 0811223639, 0811223647
Language: English
Year: 2015

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Beauty Is A Wound Eka Kurniawan by Eka Kurniawan 9780811223638, 9780811223645, 0811223639, 0811223647 instant download after payment.

The English-language debut of Indonesia's rising star.

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,...

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