Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash
New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2017.
Format: Book
Description: 209 pages ; 21 cm.
"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 by two policemen. Deeply traumatized, he becomes impotent. His efforts to get his virility back all fail, and Ajo Kawir turns to fighting as a way to vent his frustrations. He gets such a fearsome reputation as a brawler that he is hired to kill a thug named The Tiger, but instead Ajo Kawir falls in love with Iteung, a gorgeous female bodyguard, who works for the local mafia. Alas, the course of true love never did run smooth ... Fast-forward a decade. Now a truck driver, Ajo Kawir has reached a new equanimity, thinking that his penis may be trying to teach him a lesson and even consulting it in many situations as if it were his guru--and love may yet triumph. 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 male world dominated by petty criminals and a corrupt police state"-- Provided by publisher.
Series: New Directions paperbook ; 1382.
Other Authors:
Tucker, Annie, translator.
Translation of: Kurniawan, Eka, 1975- Seperti dendam, rindu harus dibayar tuntas.
Tucker, Annie, translator.
Translation of: Kurniawan, Eka, 1975- Seperti dendam, rindu harus dibayar tuntas.
ISBN:
9780811225649
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Kurniawan | Southeast | Fiction | In |
Novel.
"A New Directions paperbook original."
Translated from the Indonesian.
"A New Directions paperbook original."
Translated from the Indonesian.