MARC record from Internet Archive

LEADER: 02543cam a22003258i 4500
001 2015013461
003 DLC
005 20150511142323.0
008 150402s2015 nyu 000 1 eng c
010 $a 2015013461
020 $a9780811223638$q(alk. paper)
040 $aNIC/DLC$beng$erda$cNIC$dDLC
041 1 $aeng$hind
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPL5089.K78$bC3613 2015
082 00 $a899/.22132$223
100 1 $aKurniawan, Eka,$d1975-$eauthor.
240 10 $aCantik itu luka.$lEnglish
245 10 $aBeauty is a wound /$cEka Kurniawan ; translated by Annie Tucker.
263 $a1509
264 1 $aNew York :$bNew Directions,$c2015.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aNovel.
500 $a"A New Directions paperbook original."
520 $a"The English-language debut of Indonesia's greatest young novelist, Eka Kurniawan: "without a doubt the most original, imaginatively profound, and elegant writer of fiction in Indonesia today: its brightest and most unexpected meteorite" (Benedict Anderson). One afternoon on a weekend in May, Dewi Ayu rose from her grave after being dead for twenty-one years. So begins Beauty Is a Wound, an epic, sweeping, compulsively readable novel, combining history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. It is also a highly political book. Revolving around the beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters, various plotlines incorporate incest, murder, bestiality rape, insanity, monstrosity, and the often vengeful undead. Kurniawan's gleefully grotesque hyperbole functions as a scathing critique of his young nation's troubled past. The rapacious offhand greed of colonialism; the chaotic struggle for independence; the 1965 mass murders of perhaps a million "Communists," and the three decades of Suharto's despotic rule that followed. The bravura resilience on display here makes Beauty Is a Wound a luscious yet astringent product of the art blossoming since the fall of Suharto. Kurniawan's distinctive West Javanese voice will be entirely new to American readers, and its local sources (the all night shadow puppet plays, with their bawdy wit and epic scope; the famous local folk tales) will astonish, but Kurniawan draws as well on his favorite world writers, Melville, Gogol, Hamsun, and Marquez"--$cProvided by publisher.
700 1 $aTucker, Annie,$etranslator.
700 1 $iTranslation of:$aKurniawan, Eka,$d1975-$tCantik itu luka.