Beauty is a wound
Kurniawan, Eka, 1975-2016
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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.
Main title:
Beauty is a wound / Eka Kurniawan.
Author:
Kurniawan, Eka, 1975-, author
Imprint:
London : Pushkin, 2016.
Collation:
480 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Indonesian.
ISBN:
9781782272434 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
899.22133
Language:
EnglishIndonesian
BRN:
102695
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