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The English-language debut of Indonesia's growing legend. The epic book Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, story, 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 stressed recent: the rapacious offhand greed of colonialism; the chaotic have difficulty for self-reliance; the 1965 mass murders of perhaps a million "Communists", followed by three generations of Suharto's despotic rule. Beauty Is a Wound astonishes from its starting collection: "One day over a weekend in-may, Dewi Ayu increased from her grave after being dead for 21 years...." Sketching on local sources - folktales and the all-night shadow puppet plays, using their bawdy wit and epic opportunity - and influenced by Melville and Gogol, Kurniawan's distinctive words brings something luscious yet astringent to modern-day literature.

Category: Historical