Beauty is a wound

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A colour-drenched epic set in Indonesia, filled with vivid sex and violence, from the Man Booker International Prize longlisted author

'A literary child of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie'New York Review of Books

'A howling masterpiece' Chigoze Obioma, author of The Fisherman

One stormswept afternoon, after twenty-one years of being dead, the beautiful Indonesian prostitute Dewi Ayu rise from her grave to avenge a curse placed on her family. Amidst the orange groves and starfruit trees, her children and grandchildren have been living out lives of violence, incest, murder, madness and heartbreak, They are creatures of breathtaking beauty - all but one of them, whose ugliness in unparalleled. And Beauty is her name.

Set in the mythical Indonesian town of Halimunda, Beauty is a Wound is a bawdy, epic take of fearsome women and weak-willed men, communist ghosts and vengeful spirits. chaste princesses and ruthless bandits. It is also a satirical portrait of Indonesia's painful past, journeying through almost a century of brutality, from Dutch colonialism and Japanese occupation to revolution, independence and dictatorship. Weaving together history with local legend, Eka Kurniawan spins a fantastical masterpiece in which darkness and light dance hand in hand.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 02 juni 2016

Aantal pagina's: 480

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Eka Kurniawan

Tweede Auteur: Eka Kurniawan

Hoofduitgeverij: Push

Eerste Vertaler: Annie Tucker

Editie: 1

Product breedte: 129 mm

Product hoogte: 38 mm

Product lengte: 198 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 131 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 39 mm

Verpakking lengte: 197 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 838 g

EAN: 9781782272434

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