Man Tiger: A Novel
The English-language debut of Indonesia's rising star.
The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. The beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by 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,†followed by three decades of Suharto’s despotic rule.Country | USA |
Brand | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
Manufacturer | New Directions |
Binding | Paperback |
ReleaseDate | 2015-09-08 |
UnitCount | 1 |
EANs | 9780811223638 |