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by Eka Kurniawan
Paperback
Publication Date: 31/07/2017
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A deliciously bawdy and wholly original new novel from one of Indonesia's most influential and critically adored young writers.

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.

ISBN:
9781925498226
9781925498226
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
31-07-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Text Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
240
Dimensions (mm):
234x153x19mm
Weight:
0.29kg
Eka Kurniawan

Eka Kurniawan was born in 1975 and is the author of novels, short stories, essays, movie scripts, and graphic novels.

He has been described by the Jakarta Post as 'one of the few influential writers in Indonesia.' His first novel to be translated into English, Beauty Is a Wound, was released in 2015.

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Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash is the third novel by award-winning Indonesian author, Eka Kurniawan to be translated into English. In his early teens, Ajo Kawir witnesses a vicious assault which renders him impotent. Thereafter, he takes out his frustrations on anyone nearby who’s willing to fight. When he happens on Iteung, a tough fighter who is also a beautiful girl, his life changes: he’s fallen in love. But surely Iteung will not want an impotent husband?

Fast forward eleven years, and Ajo the ex-con is driving trucks for a living, avoiding all fighting and living a peaceful life. His kenek, a kid called Gaptooth Mono, has other ideas, however. And the stowaway in his truck, Jelita, there’s something about her…

Kurniawan gives the reader an original plot while managing to include a good helping of black humour, plenty of irony, corruption and a man who talks to his penis (which occasionally answers him). He easily conveys the Javanese village, the truck stop, and the male teen mindset. Readers should be aware that there is quite a lot of explicit sex as well as a surfeit of violent fights and dangerous truck driving and the plot necessitates frank discussion of genital organs. Some readers may find the erratic punctuation (quote marks often present for dialogue, but not always), and the switches between time periods, irritating. It is flawlessly translated from Indonesian by Annie Tucker. Funny and a bit crazy.

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