Beauty Is a Wound

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781782272434
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Imprint: Pushkin Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 899.22133
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 470
Weight: 422g
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 32mm