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Beauty Is a Wound

Beauty Is a Wound( )
Author: Kurniawan, Eka
ISBN:978-1-925240-23-8
Publication Date:Aug 2015
Publisher:Text Publishing Company
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $32.99
Book Description:

The English-language debut of Indonesia's rising literary star. Compulsively readable, Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humour, and romance in an astonishing epic novel, in which the beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by every monstrosity. Kurniawan's gleefully grotesque hyperbole is a scathing critique of his young nation's troubled past- the rapacious offhand greed of colonialism; the chaotic...
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Book Details
Pages:384
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Family Life / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.3 x 23.4 x 3.8 cm
Book Weight:0.668 Kilograms
Author Biography
Kurniawan, Eka (Author)
Eka Kurniawan was born on November 28, 1975 in Tasikmalaya, West Java, Indonesia. He studied philosophy at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta. He writes novels, short stories, movie scripts and essays. His novels in English include, Beauty is a Wound and Man Tiger which won the 2016 Emerging Voices award for best novel. He also works as a journalist and designer.

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