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In this article Beauty Is A Wound Man Tiger
By Siddhartha Deb, originally published in New Republic
Sep 03, 2015

[hide for=”!logged”]Three-quarters of the way into Beauty Is a Wound, the sprawling, ambitious novel by the Indonesian writer Eka Kurniawan, there is a curious scene at a cemetery. A man has just been buried there, ...

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