{"product_id":"beauty-is-a-wound","title":"Beauty is a Wound","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEka Kurniawan, Translated by Annie Tucker \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBeauty is a Wound\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is a bawdy, epic tale of fearsome women and weak-willed men, communist ghosts and chaste princesses. In this satirical portrait of Indonesia's painful past, Kurniawan weaves together history with local legend to spin a fantastical masterpiece in which darkness and light dance hand in hand.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages: 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne stormswept afternoon, after twenty-one years of being dead, Dewi Ayu rises from her grave to avenge a curse placed on her family. Amidst the orange groves and starfruit trees, her children and grandchildren have been living out lives of madness, incest, murder and heartbreak. They are creatures of breathtaking beauty - all but one of them, whose ugliness is unparalleled.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd Beauty is her name.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA colour-drenched, fantasy-tinged epic tale.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Eka Kurniawan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47848756347031,"sku":"01_1648","price":28.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/3272\/4887\/files\/Jan26onwards-2_34b69bcd-cee4-4216-a2dc-8d59fd08f21d.png?v=1779934499","url":"https:\/\/wormhole.com.sg\/products\/beauty-is-a-wound","provider":"Wormhole","version":"1.0","type":"link"}