Beauty Is a Wound by Eka KurniawanCall Number: Ku9662b
"One afternoon on a weekend in March, Dewi Ayu rose from her grave after being dead for twenty-one years." Dewi, a former sought-after prostitute, walks back to her house and is reunited with her daughter, Beauty, who she had prayed would be born ugly. The novel slips back in time to Dewi's childhood, covering most of Indonesian history from 1940 to the present.