Beauty Is a Wound - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Eka Kurniawan, Annie Tucker (Translator)Publish date:2015-09-08Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811223638ISBN-10:811223639UPC:9780811223638Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Family Life, Magical RealismSize:7.80 x 5.40 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCXSE0CPHQ
Beauty Is a Wound
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811223638ISBN-10:811223639UPC:9780811223638Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Family Life, Magical RealismSize:7.80 x 5.40 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCXSE0CPHQ
Kurniawan, Eka: - The internationally acclaimed author of Beauty Is a Wound and Man Tiger, Eka Kurniawan was born in West Java in 1975, the day that the little ex-Portuguese colony East Timor declared its sovereign independence.Tucker, Annie: - Annie Tucker won a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Award for her Eka Kurniawan translation.
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