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008			150402s2015 nyu 000 1 eng c
010			_a 2015013461
020			_a9780811223638 _q(alk. paper)
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050	0	0	_aPL5089.K78 _bC3613 2015
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090			_aPL5089.K78 _bC3613 2015
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.
264		1	_aNew York : _bNew Directions, _c[2015]
300			_a470 pages ; _c20 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
500			_a"A New Directions paperbook original."
500			_aJB Bengan (Recommending faculty) AY2016-2017
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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
658			_9281 _aLiterature of contemporary Europe _cCL 135
700	1		_aTucker, Annie, _etranslator.
700	1		_aKurniawan, Eka, _d1975- _tCantik itu luka. _iTranslation of:
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