| ISBN |
9781925498226 |
| Author |
Kurniawan, Ekʹa, 1975- author. |
| Title |
Vengeance is mine, all others pay cash / Eka Kurniawan ; translated from the Indonesian by Annie Tucker. |
| Publisher/Date |
Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing Company, 2017. |
| Melbourne, Victoria The Text Publishing Company, 2017. |
| ©2017 |
| Pagination etc. |
209 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Contents note |
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. |
| Summary Note |
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. |
| Language note |
Translated from the Indonesian. |
| Subject |
Urban fiction |
| Witnesses -- Fiction |
| Impotence -- Fiction |
| Rape -- Fiction |
| Impotence |
| Rape |
| Witnesses |
| Indonesia -- Fiction |
| Indonesia |
| Urban fiction |
| Urban fiction. |
| Fiction. |
| Urban fiction. |
| Added Author |
Tucker, Annie translator. |
| Shelf Location |
F KURN |
