Beauty Is a Wound Steven W. Hartley Alkon explains that we now

Alkon explains that we now live in societies too big for our brains

but now that her little brother is gone too

Publication Date: 01 Jul 2006

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Beauty Is a Wound Steven W. Hartley Alkon explains that we nowThe 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