Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash
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Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash by Eka Kurniawan
Ajo Kawir is one of the toughest fighters in the Javanese underworld, his fearlessness matched only by his unquenchable thirst for brawling. But the young thug is driven by a painful secret - he is impotent. When he finally meets his match in the shape of the fearsomely beautiful bodyguard Iteung, Ajo is left bruised, battered and overjoyed - he has fallen in love. But will he ever be able to make Iteung happy with a pecker that won't stand up? Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash is a gloriously pulpy tale of bloody fists, broken hearts and dueling Jakarta truckers, from the Man Booker International-longlisted author of Beauty is a Wound.
Praise for Beauty is a Wound -- _ _ A literary child of Gunter Grass, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Salman Rushdie New York Review of Books Exuberant, funny, crackling with energy and invention Times An old-school gothic folk tale, full of dark magic, hyperbole and gratuitous violence Guardian, Books of the Year A howling masterpiece Chigozie Obioma, author of The Fishermen An unforgettable, all-encompassing epic.. This is an astounding, momentous book Publishers Weekly (starred review) A Southeast Asian storyteller with a magnificent and effortless grasp of his material South China Morning Post Original and powerful... Maybe, who knows, the judges of the Nobel Prize could, in a few years, consider giving [Eka] the prize that Indonesia has never received Le Monde Kurniawan's story of an undead woman had morphed into the story of modern Indonesia, an epic novel critics are more wont to compare to One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Canterbury Tales Sydney Morning Herald Praise for Eka Kurniawan -- .. .. What good fortune that English-speaking readers may now find ourselves enchanted, confronted, and perhaps transformed by Kurniawan's work -- Hilary Plum Bookforum In terms of the literary novel, the year's most stirring revelation is Eka Kurniawan -- Jonathan Sturgeon Flavorwire Seems destined to join the ranks of our great storytellers like Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Hub The rising star of Indonesian fiction... Kurniawan's writing demonstrates an affinity with literary heavyweights such as, yes, Garcia Marquez and Dostoevsky -- Deborah Smith Guardian
Eka Kurniawan was born in Tasikmalaya, Indonesia in 1975. He studied philosophy at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta and has since published several novels and short stories. He was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 and his books have been translated into 33 languages. His highly acclaimed, epic work of magical realism Beauty is a Wound is also available from Pushkin Press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781782272441 |
| ISBN 10 | 1782272445 |
| Title | Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash |
| Author | Eka Kurniawan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pushkin Press |
| Year published | 2017-07-06 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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