Benedict Anderson, author of Imagined Communities Without a doubt the most original, imaginatively profound, and elegant writer of fiction in Indonesia today: its brightest and most unexpected meteorite. 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. Jon Fasman,Ĭan’t-Miss New Read Huffington Post 2015 Fall Books Preview 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.
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. Against the killings of those years and the collective amnesia used to blank out the fate of victims-a kind of second death, as it were-Kurniawan’s fiction summons its legions of ghosts.
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