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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Kurniawan, Eka, 1975-     Subjects     Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.     Families -- Fiction.     Magic -- Fiction.     Murder -- Fiction.     Prostitutes -- Fiction.     Indonesia -- Fiction.     Indonesia -- History -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kurniawan, Eka, 1975-       by title:      Beauty is a wound / ...      Cantik itu luka. Eng...       by call number:      FICTION KUR     Search the Web     Kurniawan, Eka, 1975-     Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.     Families -- Fiction.     Magic -- Fiction.     Murder -- Fiction.     Prostitutes -- Fiction.     Indonesia -- Fiction.     Indonesia -- History -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Beauty is a wound / Eka Kurniawan ; translated by Annie Tucker. by Kurniawan, Eka, 1975- New Directions, 2015. Call #: FICTION KUR Subjects Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.   Families -- Fiction.   Magic -- Fiction.   Murder -- Fiction.   Prostitutes -- Fiction.   Indonesia -- Fiction.   Indonesia -- History -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780811223638 (trade pbk.) 0811223639 (trade pbk.) Uniform title:  Cantik itu luka. English Description:  470 p. ; 21 cm. Notes:  "A New Directions paperbook original." Translated from the Indonesian. Summary:  "One afternoon on a weekend in May, Dewi Ayu rose from her grave after being dead for twenty-one years. So begins Beauty Is a Wound, an epic, sweeping, compulsively readable novel, combining history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. It is also a highly political book. Revolving around the beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters, various plotlines incorporate 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," and the three decades of Suharto's despotic rule that followed."--Publisher. Genre:  Indonesian fiction -- Translations into English. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION KUR Adult Trade Paperback Books Item being held Add Copy to MyList

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