Beauty Is a Wound (Paperback)

from kaydern

I don't know if it's a product of the translation or the culture, but I stopped reading when it the words "had sex" were used but "raped" was the only possible description around 20 times. It was rough to read about so much violence against women, but I think I would have tried harder to get into...

from mbmackay

This book is different. There are plenty of ghosts, but it isn't a ghost story. There is plenty of the post-colonial history of Indonesia, but it is hardly historical fiction. It is more of a fantastic story with elements of the spirit world painted against a backdrop of Indonesia in the second h...

from Welsh_eileen2

A fantastic mythical allegory of the turbulent history of Indonesia. An astounding novel. I was given a digital copy of this book by the publisher Pushkin Press via Netgalley in return for an honest unbiased review.