Beauty is a wound

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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, Kurniawan’s distinctive voice brings something luscious yet astringent to contemporary literature.

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A colour drenched epic filled with vivid sex and violence from indonesia s most exciting young author the epic novel beauty is a wound combines history satire family tragedy legend humour and romance in a sweeping polyphony the beautiful indo prostitute dewi ayu and her four daughters are be Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 22 september 2015

Aantal pagina's: 384

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Eka Kurniawan

Tweede Auteur: Eka Kurniawan

Hoofduitgeverij: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Eerste Vertaler: Annie Tucker

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 140 mm

Product hoogte: 33 mm

Product lengte: 206 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 140 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 38 mm

Verpakking lengte: 203 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 899 g

EAN: 9780811223638

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