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Beauty Is A Wound is a book you get, when a writer starts out with an inventive theme, but slowly devolves into sexist, misogynistic garbage, which feels like its from the wet dreams of a horny and misguided teenager.

There is an unhealthy and disturbing fixation on sexual assault, incest and beastiality. But the worst is how the author makes it seem like the women invited their brutalisation with their beauty.

Just NO!!

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Novel that follows three generations in Indonesia & parallels its history from pre-war colonial time through WWII and the post-war era. Dewi Ayu is a beautiful prostitute with three gorgeous daughters and a 4th named Beauty who is hideous. the beauties, like Indonesia itself, are coveted, raped and abused. Fascinating mix of history, magical realism, myth and even humor. https://cannonballread.com/2023/07/beauty-is-a-wound-a-novel-elcicco/

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It starts at the end - a tragic end that the writer unravels in reverse for us to read as Kurniawan sets the story of two families, interlocked onto each other that we only understand the further into the book we follow and by then we're back at the ending.

This was such a different book from what I usually read that I couldn't help but be drawn in.

Home is a family saga of #Indonesia from 1965-1998, but most of the book is set in Paris. Dinas Suryo can‘t go home and ends up starting an Indonesian restaurant in Paris. Then the story shifts to his daughter, Lintang, a student at the Sorbonne who has an assignment to make a documentary film.
Although it took me a while to finish, by the end, I was so absorbed in this family, their history, the food, and the meaning of home. #ReadingAsia2021

Dewi Ayu rose from her grave after being dead for twenty-one years and she brings us the story about her cursed family. Novel combines love, history, myths and magical ... It‘s a very violent and sad, but at the same time also very colourful and beautiful. #ReadingAsia #Indonesia

I enjoyed my first #ReadingAsia2021 book. This is not a part of the world I know much about, but I discovered so much. There's a loose plot based on an outbreak of avian flu and some romance, but at its heart, this is a culinary and cultural tour of Indonesia. I just wish there was an Indonesian restaurant nearby, the food was so lovingly depicted I want to try some. It is also my #bookspin book for #bookspinbingo. #JoyousJanuary

#InspiredNewYear Day 11: I am excited to #Discover even more titles as we explore #SurvivalStories2021 and we “decolonize our bookshelves” this year. Here are some titles I managed to find from my bookshelves that are now going to my #TBRStack for the year.

My final book for #Booked2020, and I‘m also using it as an early start on #readingasia2021! #Indonesia

This is a short novel that packs a powerful punch. A murder happens in a quiet Indonesian village, perpetrated by a man who has a white tigress residing within. We travel backwards in time to learn the history between two families, and what connects them.

For those doing #pop21, this would be an interesting pick for the magical realism prompt!

#WordsOfOctober Day 21: During my book hunting expedition in Bali last year, I also bought a set of #aromatic incense sticks to welcome positivity. My book hunting expedition post which seems like a lifetime ago now here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-kp0