{"product_id":"beauty-is-a-wound-1","title":"Beauty Is a Wound","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe English-language debut of Indonesia's rising star.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeauty 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.... \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eka Kurniawan, Annie Tucker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44402408882345,"sku":"9780811223638","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9780811223638.jpg?v=1720070886","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/beauty-is-a-wound-1","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}