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Beauty is a Wound

Af: Eka Kurniawan Engelsk Paperback

Beauty is a Wound

Af: Eka Kurniawan Engelsk Paperback
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A colour-drenched epic set in Indonesia, filled with vivid sex and violence, from the Man Booker International Prize longlisted author

'A literary child of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie'New York Review of Books

'A howling masterpiece' Chigoze Obioma, author of The Fisherman


One stormswept afternoon, after twenty-one years of being dead, the beautiful Indonesian prostitute Dewi Ayu rise from her grave to avenge a curse placed on her family. Amidst the orange groves and starfruit trees, her children and grandchildren have been living out lives of violence, incest, murder, madness and heartbreak, They are creatures of breathtaking beauty - all but one of them, whose ugliness in unparalleled. And Beauty is her name.

Set in the mythical Indonesian town of Halimunda, Beauty is a Wound is a bawdy, epic take of fearsome women and weak-willed men, communist ghosts and vengeful spirits. chaste princesses and ruthless bandits. It is also a satirical portrait of Indonesia's painful past, journeying through almost a century of brutality, from Dutch colonialism and Japanese occupation to revolution, independence and dictatorship. Weaving together history with local legend, Eka Kurniawan spins a fantastical masterpiece in which darkness and light dance hand in hand.
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A colour-drenched epic set in Indonesia, filled with vivid sex and violence, from the Man Booker International Prize longlisted author

'A literary child of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie'New York Review of Books

'A howling masterpiece' Chigoze Obioma, author of The Fisherman


One stormswept afternoon, after twenty-one years of being dead, the beautiful Indonesian prostitute Dewi Ayu rise from her grave to avenge a curse placed on her family. Amidst the orange groves and starfruit trees, her children and grandchildren have been living out lives of violence, incest, murder, madness and heartbreak, They are creatures of breathtaking beauty - all but one of them, whose ugliness in unparalleled. And Beauty is her name.

Set in the mythical Indonesian town of Halimunda, Beauty is a Wound is a bawdy, epic take of fearsome women and weak-willed men, communist ghosts and vengeful spirits. chaste princesses and ruthless bandits. It is also a satirical portrait of Indonesia's painful past, journeying through almost a century of brutality, from Dutch colonialism and Japanese occupation to revolution, independence and dictatorship. Weaving together history with local legend, Eka Kurniawan spins a fantastical masterpiece in which darkness and light dance hand in hand.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 480
ISBN-13: 9781782272434
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1782272437
Udg. Dato: 2 jun 2016
Længde: 32mm
Bredde: 129mm
Højde: 198mm
Forlag: Pushkin Press
Oplagsdato: 2 jun 2016
Forfatter(e): Eka Kurniawan
Forfatter(e) Eka Kurniawan


Kategori Moderne Samtidslitteratur


ISBN-13 9781782272434


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 480


Udgave


Længde 32mm


Bredde 129mm


Højde 198mm


Udg. Dato 2 jun 2016


Oplagsdato 2 jun 2016


Forlag Pushkin Press

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