Beauty Is a Wound Steven W. Hartley Publication Date: 01 Jul 2006

Publication Date: 01 Jul 2006

Daisy Peshkov

the relation of religion and science―have provoked discussion from Newman's time to our own

Publisher: Stevens & Sons

and his message of perseverance in the face of emotional turmoil cuts to the heart of modern-day life

Beauty Is a Wound Steven W. Hartley Publication Date: 01 Jul 2006The 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