Vengeance is mine, all others pay cash / Eka Kurniawan ; translated from the Indonesian by Annie Tucker
- Bib ID:
- 7384498
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Kurniawan, Ekʹa, 1975-, author
- Uniform Title:
- Seperti dendam rindu harus dibayar tuntas. English
- Description:
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- Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2017
- ©2017
- 209 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781925498226 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Told in short, cinematic bursts, Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash is gloriously pulpy. Ajo Kawir, a lower-class Javanese teenage boy excited about sex, likes to spy on fellow villagers in flagrante, but one night he ends up witnessing the savage rape of a beautiful crazy woman. Deeply traumatised, he becomes impotent, turns to fighting as a way to vent his frustrations. Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash shows Eka Kurniawan in a gritty, comic, pungent mode that fans of Quentin Tarantino will appreciate. But even with its liberal peppering of fights, high-speed car chases, and ladies heaving with desire, the novel continues to explore Kurniawan's familiar themes of female agency in a violent and corrupt male world.
- Notes:
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- Originally published under the title: Seperti dendam, rindu harus dibayar tuntas, by Gramedia Pustaka Utama in 2014.
- First published in English by New Directions in 2017.
- Translated from the Indonesian.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Tucker, Annie
- Copyright Information:
- Copyright © Eka Kurniawan 2014 ; Translation copyright © Annie Tucker 2017.
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2017
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