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Beauty Is A Wound

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And Beauty is her name. Beauty Is a Wound. Books Set In Indonesia Beauty Is A Wound By Eka Kurniawan Visit Www Taleway Com To Find Books From Around The World Books Indonesia Books About Indonesia Indonesia Inspiration Indonesia Travel Indonesia Reading Indonesia Beauty is a Wound. Beauty is a wound . Kurniawan studied philosophy in Yogyakarta and published his first book a study of the fiction of Indonesias postwar literary giant Pramoedya Ananta Toer in 1999. Beauty is a Wound is the story of the beautiful and bawdy Eurasian prostitute Dewi Ayu born of an incestuous union between the legitimate son and the illegitimate mixed-race daughter of a plantation owner in the late decades of the Dutch East Indies as well as of her ill-fated daughters their husbands and lovers and of her own similarly ill-fated grandchildren. He writes novels short stories as well as non-fiction pieces. Beauty is a wound is full of dark humour fantastical old sagas violence and erotic encounters. ...