Eka Kurniawan

Beauty Is a Wound (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Tucker, Annie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The English-language debut of Indonesia's rising star.

The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, 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 Wound astonishes 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 sourcesfolk tales and the all-night shadow puppet plays, with their bawdy wit and epic scopeand inspired by Melville and Gogol, Kurniawan's distinctive voice brings something luscious yet astringent to contemporary literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811223645
• Artikelnr.: 59590919

Autorenporträt

The internationally acclaimed author of Beauty Is a Wound and Man Tiger, Eka Kurniawan was born in West Java in 1975, the day that the little ex-Portuguese colony East Timor declared its sovereign independence.