Beauty Is a Wound - Eka Kurniawan, Annie Tucker
Language: EnglishKeywords:
Indonesia
Magical Realism
Shared by:Synchoresis
Written by ,
Read by Jonathan Davis
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Variable
Unabridged
Original publication date: 2002 (in Indonesian) / 2015 (English translation)
Audiobook release date: 2016
Publisher: Bolinda/Audible audio
Audiobook duration: 16:29:30
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New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of the Year
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.
Beauty Is a Wound astonishes from its opening line: “One afternoon on a weekend in May, Dewi Ayu rose from her grave after being dead for twenty-one years…” Drawing on local sources—folk tales and the all-night shadow puppet plays, with their bawdy wit and epic scope—and inspired by Melville and Gogol, Kurniawan’s distinctive voice brings something luscious yet astringent to contemporary literature.
Translated from the Indonesian by Annie Tucker.
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This post has 8 comments with rating of 5/5
September 28th, 2020
Annie Tucker is the translator. The author Eka Kuniawan is male. There are probably more rapes depicted in this book than any other on ABB. I am not pointing this out to discourage anyone from reading it but it may be triggering to sexual assault survivors.
September 28th, 2020
Thank you brassy. I had some hesitations about posting it for that reason. However I decided it is worth sharing because it is a renowned piece of literature, and this is a site where the content is regularly 18+.
September 28th, 2020
Could you please fix the sound. It’s like listening to chipmunks narrating this book
September 28th, 2020
Thank you so much for downloading this, Synchoresis. I’ve been wanting to listen to this since it came out.
September 28th, 2020
@KokoChrome Maybe change the settings of your audio player or try a different one? I checked the files, and they sound fine to me.
September 29th, 2020
@Synchoresis
I’ve been using the JetAudio forever and right now I’m listening to a book and it’s working fine.
Thanks for your efforts, though.
Shame I’m not going to enjoy this one. I’d have loved to know about different cultures :(
April 27th, 2022
Can someone reseed this?
May 10th, 2023
pls seed this!!
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