Beauty is a Wound av Eka Kurniawan

Beauty Is A Wound Av Eka Kurniawan

A colour-drenched epic set in Indonesia, filled with vivid sex and violence, from the Man Booker International Prize longlisted author'A literary child of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie'New York Review of Book>'A howling masterpiece' Chigoze Obioma, author of The FishermanOne stormswept afternoon, after twenty-one...... Les mer...
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A colour-drenched epic set in Indonesia, filled with vivid sex and violence, from the Man Booker International Prize longlisted author'A literary child of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie'New York Review of Book>'A howling masterpiece' Chigoze Obioma, author of The FishermanOne stormswept afternoon, after twenty-one years of being dead, the beautiful Indonesian prostitute Dewi Ayu rise from her grave to avenge a curse placed on her family. Amidst the orange groves and starfruit trees, her children and grandchildren have been living out lives of violence, incest, murder, madness and heartbreak, They are creatures of breathtaking beauty - all but one of them, whose ugliness in unparalleled. And Beauty is her name.Set in the mythical Indonesian town of Halimunda, Beauty is a Wound is a bawdy, epic take of fearsome women and weak-willed men, communist ghosts and vengeful spirits. chaste princesses and ruthless bandits. It is also a satirical portrait of Indonesia's painful past, journeying through almost a century of brutality, from Dutch colonialism and Japanese occupation to revolution, independence and dictatorship. Weaving together history with local legend, Eka Kurniawan spins a fantastical masterpiece in which darkness and light dance hand in hand.

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Produktnavn Beauty is a Wound av Eka Kurniawan
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Sjanger Moderne skjønnlitteratur
Format Heftet
Språk Engelsk
Forfatter Eka Kurniawan
Forlag Pushkin Press
Utgivelsesdato 2016-06
Utgivelsesår 2016

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