Beauty is a Wound (e-bok)
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Engelska
Antal sidor
304
Utgivningsdatum
2016-06-02
Förlag
Pushkin Press
Översättare
Annie Tucker
ISBN
9781782272779
Beauty is a Wound (e-bok)

Beauty is a Wound E-bok

An Italian War Diary 1943-1944

av Eka Kurniawan
E-bok (Drm),  Engelska, 2016-06-02
A colour-drenched epic, filled with vivid sex and violence, from Indonesia's most exciting young authorThe epic novelBeauty Is a Woundcombines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humour, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. 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. Beauty Is a Woundastonishes from its opening line: 'One afternoon on a weekend in May, Dewi Ayu rose from her grave after being dead for twenty-one years...' Drawing on local sources folk tales and the all-night shadow puppet plays, with their bawdy wit and epic scope and inspired by Melville and Gogol, Kurniawan's distinctive voice brings something luscious yet astringent to contemporary literature. Eka Kurniawanwas born in Tasikmalaya, Indonesia in 1975. He studied philosophy at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta and has since published several novels and short stories. The rights toBeauty is a Woundhave now been sold in 27 territories.Love and Vengeancewill be published by Pushkin Press in 2017.
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