Beauty Is a Wound

Kurniawan, Eka

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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 struggle for independence; the 1965 mass murders of perhaps a million Communists, followed by three decades of Suharto’s despotic rule.

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Publish Date: 02/06/2016

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Weight 390 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 32 mm
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Cover

Paperback

Pages

470

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

899.22133 (edition:23)

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