An extraordinarily beautiful, sly, ribald, and compulsively readable novel
Eka Kurniawan was born in Tasikmalaya, Indonesia in 1975. He studied philosophy at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta. He has published several novels, including Beauty Is a Wound and Man Tiger, as well as short stories. His novels have been published in a number of languages, including English.
Against the killings of those years and the collective amnesia used
to blank out the fate of [Indonesia's] victims-a kind of second
death, as it were-Kurniawan's fiction summons its legions of
ghosts. Against the strongmen who presided over violence and abuse,
it raises the dead Dewi Ayu and brings to life a magic tigress
hungry for justice.
*New Republic*
Tight, focused and thrilling. Like a good crime novel, Man Tiger
works best when read in a single sitting, and its propulsive
suspense is all the more remarkable because Kurniawan reveals both
victim and murderer in the first sentence.
*New York Times Book Review*
Can't-Miss New Read
*Huffington Post 2015 Fall Books Preview*
In terms of the literary novel, the year's most stirring revelation
is Eka Kurniawan . Imagine if Gogol adapted the films of
Weerasethakul into novels.
*Flavorwire*
Without a doubt the most original, imaginatively profound, and
elegant writer of fiction in Indonesia today: its brightest and
most unexpected meteorite.
*Benedict Anderson, author of Imagined Communities*
The world Kurniawan invents is familiar and unexpected,
incorporating mystery, magical realism, and folklore . Biting and
beautiful . This wild and enthralling novel manages to entertain
while offering readers insight into the traditions of a
little-known South East Asian culture. Kurniawan has officially put
the West on notice.
*Publishers Weekly*
Man Tiger is a novel of mystery, suspense, and magical realism .
Kurniawan has already been compared to writers like Gabriel García
Márquez, so he's for sure one to put on your list.
*Book Riot*
I can't think of another instance in which a writer debuted in
English translation by being simultaneously published by two
esteemed houses. Such is the case with Eka Kurniawan, an Indonesian
novelist of remarkable prowess who seems destined to join the ranks
of our great storytellers like Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia
Marquez.
*Literary Hub*
One of the few influential writers in Indonesia.
*Jakarta Post*
A slim, wry story.at once elegant and bawdy, experimental, and
political.
*LARB's "The Offing"*
[It's] telling that many have deemed Kurniawan the next Pramoedya
Ananta Toer, an acclaimed pioneer of socialist realism.
*The New Yorker*
Man Tiger may not seem like much of a murder mystery, given that
the opening words reveal who killed whom, yet in retracing the
steps that led to the crime, as "cut and dried" as it seems, and in
exploring the motive behind it -- revealed only at the book's
conclusion -- Kurniawan keeps the reader in mystery-like
suspense.
*The Complete Review*
[Man Tiger is] signature Kurniawan in its serious playfulness. It
alternates flash and inner quiet. We feel everything from the
tenderness of family meals to the roughness of a torn jugular.
*BOMB Magazine*
A supernatural tale of murder and desire fascinatingly subverts the
crime genre . Kurniawan's writing demonstrates an affinity with
literary heavyweights such as, yes, García Márquez and
Dostoevsky.
*Guardian*
Intense, thrilling and violent . Ferocious tale of a Javanese
anti-hero.
*Morning Star*
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