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author of Kinship in Bali and Professor of Anthropology at Princeton UniversityIn Bali
The common reader will find the argument clear and invigorating
funny and literary concoction' Irish Times
This book will show you how to do just that by using three simple questions
and a White Queen who lives backwards and remembers forwards
Beauty Is a Wound Jack Andraka author of Kinship in BaliThe 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
