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 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.
Beauty Is a Wound
Eka Kurniawan
$19.95
- SKU:
- 9780811223638
- UPC:
- 9780811223638
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- Published by:
- New Directions
- Translated by:
- Annie Tucker
- Pub date:
- 09/08/2015
- Binding type:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 384
- ISBN:
- 9780811223638
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