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008			150402r20152002nyu 000 1 eng c
010			_a2015013461
020			_a0811223639
020			_a9780811223638 _q(alk. paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)906936870
040			_aNIC/DLC _beng _erda _cCOO _dDLC _dBTCTA _dBDX _dYDXCP _dIWE _dHBP _dOCLCO _dUOK _dOCLCO _dOCLCF _dOCLCO _dNFG
041	1		_aeng _hind
042			_apcc
049			_aNFGB _aNFCB
099			_aKurniawa _aEka
100	1		_aKurniawan, Eka, _d1975-, _eauthor. _9285121
240	1	0	_aCantik itu luka. _lEnglish
245	1	0	_aBeauty is a wound / _cEka Kurniawan ; translated by Annie Tucker.
263			_a1509
264		1	_aNew York : _bNew Directions, _c2015.
300			_a470 pages ; _c20 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
500			_a"A New Directions paperbook original."
500			_aOriginally published in 2002 by AKY Press and Penerbit Jendela, Yogyakart.
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.
650		0	_aFamilies _vFiction. _93570
650		0	_aMothers and daughters _vFiction. _91062
650		0	_aProstitutes _vFiction. _956991
650		0	_aSpeculative fiction. _9195762
651		0	_aIndonesia _vFiction. _9109478
651		0	_aIndonesia _xHistory _vFiction. _9284264
700	1		_aTucker, Annie, _etranslator. _9284265
700	1		_iTranslation of: _aKurniawan, Eka, _d1975- _tCantik itu luka. _9284266
942			_cBOOK _05
994			_aC0 _bNFG
997			_aKurniawa Eka
998			_a007753054
999			_c196191 _d196191