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008			150402s2015 nyu 000 f eng c
010			_a 2015013461
020			_a9780811223638 _qpaperback _qalkaline paper
020			_a0811223639 _qpaperback _qalkaline paper
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035			_a(OCoLC)ocn906936870
035			_a(OCoLC)906936870
035			_a(NNC)11629277
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050	0	0	_aPL5089.K78 _bC3613 2015
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100	1		_aKurniawan, Eka, _d1975- _eauthor.
240	1	0	_aCantik itu luka. _lEnglish
245	1	0	_aBeauty is a wound / _cEka Kurniawan ; translated by Annie Tucker.
300			_a470 pages ; _c21 cm.
490	1		_aNew Directions paperbook ; _vNDP1313
500			_aTranslated from the Indonesian.
500			_a"A New Directions paperbook original."
520			_a"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 Ayu rose from her grave after being dead for twenty-one years. So begins Beauty Is a Wound, an epic, sweeping, compulsively readable novel, combining history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. It is also a highly political book. Revolving around the beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters, various plotlines incorporate 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," and the three decades of Suharto's despotic rule that followed. The bravura resilience on display here makes Beauty Is a Wound a luscious yet astringent product of the art blossoming since the fall of Suharto. Kurniawan's distinctive West Javanese voice will be entirely new to American readers, and its local sources (the all night shadow puppet plays, with their bawdy wit and epic scope; the famous local folk tales) will astonish, but Kurniawan draws as well on his favorite world writers, Melville, Gogol, Hamsun, and Marquez"--
650		0	_aFamilies _vFiction.
650		0	_aMothers and daughters _vFiction.
650		0	_aProstitutes _vFiction.
650		0	_aSpeculative fiction.
651		0	_aIndonesia _vFiction.
651		0	_aIndonesia _xHistory _vFiction.
700	1		_aTucker, Annie, _etranslator.
700	1		_aKurniawan, Eka, _d1975- _tCantik itu luka.
830		0	_aNew Directions paperbook ; _v1313.
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948	1		_a20151119 _bc _cjeb52 _dMPS
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