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- PublisherThe Text Publishing Company
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1925240231
- ISBN 13 9781925240238
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages512
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Beauty Is a Wound (Paperback)
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 sourcesfolk tales and the all-night shadow puppet plays, with their bawdy witand 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781925240238
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ISBN 10: 1925240231
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 sourcesfolk tales and the all-night shadow puppet plays, with their bawdy witand 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. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781925240238
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Beauty Is a Wound (Paperback)
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Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2015
ISBN 10: 1925240231
ISBN 13: 9781925240238
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 sourcesfolk tales and the all-night shadow puppet plays, with their bawdy witand 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. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781925240238
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