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Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash

Name: Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash
Rating: 5.0 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9781925410549

Kurniawan, Eka ; Tucker, Annie

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'Thrilling...an engrossing, emotionally rankling speed-read...original and sure-footed.' Big Issue UK 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. Eka Kurniawan was born in 1975 and is the author of novels, short stories, essays, movie scripts, [...]and...

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

The Text Publishing Company

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

1925410544

ISBN 13:

9781925410549