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Beauty is a wound

"The English-language debut of Indonesia's greatest young novelist, Eka Kurniawan: "without a doubt the most original, imaginatively profound, and elegant writer of fiction in Indonesia today: its brightest and most unexpected meteorite" (Benedict Anderson). One afternoon on a weekend in May, Dewi A...

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Main Author: Kurniawan, Eka, 1975- (Author)
Other Authors: Tucker, Annie (Translator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Indonesian
Published: New York : New Directions, [2015]
Subjects:
Families > Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
Prostitutes > Fiction.
Indonesia > History > Fiction.
Speculative fiction.
Political fiction.
Romantic suspense fiction.
Historical fiction.
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One afternoon on a weekend in March, Dewi Ayu rose from her grave after being dead for twenty-one years. A shepherd boy, awakened from his nap under a frangipani tree, peed in his shorts and screamed, and his four sheep ran off haphazardly in between stones and wooden grave markers as if a tiger had been thrown into their midst. Excerpted from Beauty Is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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