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Vengeance is mine, all others pay cash
- Title
- Vengeance is mine, all others pay cash / Eka Kurniawan ; translated by Annie Tucker.
- Author
- Kurniawan, Eka, 1975-
- Publication
- New York : New Directions, 2017.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-5369 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Tucker, Annie
- Description
- 209 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- New Directions paperbook ; NDP1382
- Uniform Title
- Seperti dendam, rindu harus dibayar tuntas. English
- New Directions paperbook ; NDP1382
- Alternative Title
- Seperti dendam, rindu harus dibayar tuntas.
- Subjects
- Note
- Novel.
- "A New Directions paperbook original."
- Call Number
- JFD 17-5369
- ISBN
- 9780811225649
- 081122564X
- LCCN
- 2017000506
- OCLC
- 961001993
- Author
- Kurniawan, Eka, 1975- author.
- Title
- Vengeance is mine, all others pay cash / Eka Kurniawan ; translated by Annie Tucker.
- Publisher
- New York : New Directions, 2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New Directions paperbook ; NDP1382New Directions paperbook ; NDP1382
- Added Author
- Tucker, Annie, translator.Translation of: Kurniawan, Eka, 1975- Seperti dendam, rindu harus dibayar tuntas.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-5369