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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0811223639
ISBN13:9780811223638
Release Date:September 2015
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Length:384 Pages
Weight:1.21 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 5.4" x 7.8"
Customer Reviews
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Read in one sitting on a plane ride
Published by Isabella P , 11 months ago
All I have to say is read it if you haven't. The quality of it will explain itself to you as you read. If you are a fan of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I would strongly recommend this book.
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