A review by jannagregory
Beauty Is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan

dark emotional sad medium-paced

2.5

I respect this book, but don’t like it very much.  It’s quite an epic work on the part of the author and translator, but it meanders and leaves a character’s storyline just as I was starting to feel engrossed.  There is a resolution if you can stick it out and finish the book, but it’s often tedious getting there.  Lots of rape, death, sex, and men being captivated by beauty to the detriment of the beautiful.