Vengeance is mine, all others pay cash
(Book)
"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"--
Notes
Kurniawan, E., & Tucker, A. (2017). Vengeance is mine, all others pay cash. New York, New Directions.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Kurniawan, Eka, 1975- and Annie, Tucker. 2017. Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash. New York, New Directions.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Kurniawan, Eka, 1975- and Annie, Tucker, Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash. New York, New Directions, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Kurniawan, Eka and Annie Tucker. Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash. New York, New Directions, 2017.
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