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Beauty Is a Wound
Beauty Is a Wound
Author: Eka Kurniawan, Annie Tucker (Translator)
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 strug...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780811223638
ISBN-10: 0811223639
Publication Date: 9/8/2015
Pages: 384
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Publisher: New Directions
Book Type: Paperback
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