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BEAUTY IS A WOUND

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: London Pushkin Press 2015/01/01Edition: 1Description: 470ISBN:
  • 9781782272434
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • F KUR/BE
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Lending Lending Ernakulam Public Library Fiction Fiction F KUR/BE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 2017-08-14 E187474

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.

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