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Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash

by Annie Tucker, Eka Kurniawan
$9.90
Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash
Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash

Dark humor meets poignant, raw Indonesian narrative.

If you're looking for a story that delves deep into the human psyche with a blend of dark humor and gritty realism, this book is for you. It's a unique take on love and violence set in Indonesia, providing a cultural context that's probably fresh to you—with a narrative that's as engaging as it is provocative. Eka Kurniawan has a gift for crafting vivid characters that stay with you long after you turn the last page.

  • Kusala Sastra Khatulistiwa Nominee for Prosa - shortlist (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash

by Annie Tucker, Eka Kurniawan
$9.90
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ISBN: 9781782272441
Authors: Annie Tucker, Eka Kurniawan
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Date of Publication: 2017-07-06
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Mystery/Crime/Thriller, Contemporary, Romance
Related Topics: Thriller, Mystery, Crime
Goodreads rating: 3.95
(rated by 6634 readers)

Description

Told in short, cinematic bursts, Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash is gloriously pulpy. Ajo Kawir, a sex-obsessed lower-class Javanese teenage boy, 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...Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash shows Eka Kurniawan in a gritty, comic, pungent mode that fans of Quentin Tarantino will love. 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.
 

Dark humor meets poignant, raw Indonesian narrative.

If you're looking for a story that delves deep into the human psyche with a blend of dark humor and gritty realism, this book is for you. It's a unique take on love and violence set in Indonesia, providing a cultural context that's probably fresh to you—with a narrative that's as engaging as it is provocative. Eka Kurniawan has a gift for crafting vivid characters that stay with you long after you turn the last page.

  • Kusala Sastra Khatulistiwa Nominee for Prosa - shortlist (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.