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Beauty Is a Wound

by Annie Tucker, Eka Kurniawan
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Beauty Is a Wound
Beauty Is a Wound

Savage Indonesian epic of beauty, ghosts, history

This is the kind of novel that feels wild, feverish, and completely alive, mixing family curse, political violence, and the supernatural into something unforgettable. If you like stories that are lush, darkly funny, and unafraid of ugliness, this one really lingers. Readers often love how it turns Indonesia’s history into myth without losing the human mess, desire, and heartbreak at its core.

  • Kusala Sastra Khatulistiwa Nominee for longlist (2003)
  • BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2016)
  • Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2018)
  • Metų verstinė knyga Nominee (2018)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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by Annie Tucker, Eka Kurniawan
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ISBN: 9781782272434
Authors: Annie Tucker, Eka Kurniawan
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Date of Publication: 2016-06-02
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fantasy
Related Topics: Asian Literature, Magical Realism
Goodreads rating: 4.05
(rated by 19207 readers)

Description

One stormswept afternoon, after twenty-one years of being dead, the beautiful Indonesian prostitute Dewi Ayu rises from her grave to avenge a curse placed on her family. Amidst the orange groves and starfruit trees, her children and grandchildren have lived lives of violence, incest, murder, madness and heartbreak. They are creatures of breathtaking beauty—all but one, whose ugliness is unparalleled. And Beauty is her name. Set in the mythical Indonesian town of Halimunda, Beauty Is a Wound is a bawdy, epic tale of fearsome women and weak-willed men, communist ghosts and vengeful spirits, chaste princesses and ruthless bandits. It is also a satirical portrait of Indonesia’s painful past, journeying through almost a century of brutality, from Dutch colonialism and Japanese occupation to revolution, independence and dictatorship. Weaving together history with local legend, Eka Kurniawan spins a fantastical masterpiece in which darkness and light dance hand in hand.
 

Savage Indonesian epic of beauty, ghosts, history

This is the kind of novel that feels wild, feverish, and completely alive, mixing family curse, political violence, and the supernatural into something unforgettable. If you like stories that are lush, darkly funny, and unafraid of ugliness, this one really lingers. Readers often love how it turns Indonesia’s history into myth without losing the human mess, desire, and heartbreak at its core.

  • Kusala Sastra Khatulistiwa Nominee for longlist (2003)
  • BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2016)
  • Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2018)
  • Metų verstinė knyga Nominee (2018)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.