- Title:
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Beauty Is a Wound (MP3)
- Written by:
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Eka Kurniawan
- Read by:
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Jonathan Davis
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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16 hours 29 minutes
- MP3 size:
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571 MB
- Published:
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September 28 2016
- Available Date:
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September 28 2016
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489360991
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of the Year
‘An unforgettable, all-encompassing epic. Upon finishing the book, the reader will have the sense of encountering not just the history of Indonesia but its soul and spirit. This is an astounding, momentous book.’
Publishers Weekly
The English-language debut of Indonesia’s rising star.
Compulsively readable, Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humour, and romance in an astonishing epic novel, in which the beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by every monstrosity.
Kurniawan’s gleefully grotesque hyperbole is 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, followed by three decades of Suharto’s despotic rule. Drawing on local sources - folk tales and the all-night shadow puppet plays, with their bawdy wit - and inspired by Melville and Gogol, Beauty Is a Wound is passionate and ironic, exuberant and confronting. Hailed as ‘the next Pramoedya’, Eka Kurniawan is an exciting new voice in contemporary literature.
‘Kurniawan’s story of an undead woman had morphed into the story of modern Indonesia, an epic novel critics are more wont to compare to One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Canterbury Tales.’
The Sydney Morning Herald
‘The first sentence of nearly every chapter in the episodic Beauty grabs the reader and yanks him into the action…whatever he chooses to write will be well worth reading.’
The New York Times
'Beauty is a Wound is an epic of a kind that could only come from the pen of an Indonesian…Kurniawan’s creative ambition and scope are traditional in some senses, but his deeply strange work is profoundly original.’
The Australian