Beauty is a Wound

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

Compulsively readable, Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humour, and romance in an astonishing epic novel, in which the beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by every monstrosity.

Kurniawan's gleefully grotesque hyperbole is 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, followed by three decades of Suharto's despotic rule. Drawing on local sources-folk tales and the all-night shadow puppet plays, with their bawdy wit-and inspired by Melville and Gogol, Beauty Is a Wound is passionate and ironic, exuberant and confronting. Hailed as 'the next Pramoedya', Eka Kurniawan is an exciting new voice in contemporary literature.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781925240238
Published: August 2015

Number of pages: 384
Width: 153 mm
Height: 234 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Text Publishing