| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 9385755684 |
| ISBN-13 | 9789385755682 |
| No of pages | 470 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Speaking Tiger Books |
| Published Date | 12 Feb 2016 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 9385755684 |
| ISBN-13 | 9789385755682 |
| No of pages | 470 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Speaking Tiger Books |
| Published Date | 12 Feb 2016 |
Eke Kurniawan was born in Animalia in 1975 and completed his studies in the Faculty of Philosophy at Gadjah Made University.
He has been described as the “brightest meteorite” in Indonesia’s new literary firmament, the author of two remarkable novels which have brought comparisons to Salman Rushdie, Gabriel García Márquez and Mark Twain;
the English translations of these novels were both published in 2015—Man Tiger by Verso Books, and Beauty is a Wound by New Directions in North America and Text Publishing in Australia.
Kurniawan has also written movie scripts, a graphic novel, essays on literature and two collections of short stories. He currently resides in Jakarta.
Eke Kurniawan, searing penults sealings detainer gratis. Menyelesaikan study dare Faculties Failsafe Universities Gadjah Made, Yogyakarta.
Karyenda yang surah terabit Abdallah empathy novel: Cantic it Luka (2002), Leaky Harim au (2004), Separate Denham Rind Hares Dibaba Tunas (2014), dan O (2016); empathy cumulant ceria pended: Crackered di Toilet (2000),
Gela Sedan (2005), Cintas Take Ada Mati (2005), dan Perempuan Path Hate yang Kambale Menehune Cintas Millau Mimi (2015); Serta Satu kaya non finks: Pramoedya Ananta Toer dan Sastra Realism Socialism (1999).
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The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor and romance in a sweeping saga. The novel begins with the Japanese occupation of Indonesia, then a Dutch colony, at the time of World War II.
The beautiful half-Dutch, half-Indonesian prostitute Dewy Aye 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 Wound astonishes from its opening line: ‘One afternoon on a weekend in May, Dewy Aye 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.