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Skönhet är ett sår
by Eka Kurniawan
🦋Magical realism~569 pages
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In a coastal Indonesian town scarred by colonial rule, occupation, revolution and dictatorship, the beautiful Dewi Ayu rises from the grave after twenty-one years dead. Her return opens onto the intertwined fates of her four daughters, their lovers, soldiers, gangsters and enemies. Ghosts and curses sit naturally beside political violence, erotic farce and generational trauma, while the town’s history keeps intruding on every household. Wildly inventive but rooted in real historical wounds, this sprawling novel is gruesome, comic and tragic in equal measure, with an unusually vivid communal cast.
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