The Resource Vengeance is mine, all others pay cash, Eka Kurniawan ; translated by Annie Tucker
Vengeance is mine, all others pay cash, Eka Kurniawan ; translated by Annie Tucker
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The item Vengeance is mine, all others pay cash, Eka Kurniawan ; translated by Annie Tucker represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
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- 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"--
- Language
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- eng
- ind
- eng
- Extent
- 209 pages
- Note
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- Translated from the Indonesian
- Novel
- "A New Directions paperbook original."
- Isbn
- 9780811225649
- Label
- Vengeance is mine, all others pay cash
- Title
- Vengeance is mine, all others pay cash
- Statement of responsibility
- Eka Kurniawan ; translated by Annie Tucker
- Language
-
- eng
- ind
- eng
- 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10570842
- Cataloging source
- NIC/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1975-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kurniawan, Eka
- Dewey number
- 899/.22132
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1975-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Tucker, Annie
- Kurniawan, Eka
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- New Directions paperbook
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Impotence
- Rape
- Impotence
- Rape
- Indonesia
- Indonesia
- Label
- Vengeance is mine, all others pay cash, Eka Kurniawan ; translated by Annie Tucker
- Note
-
- Translated from the Indonesian
- Novel
- "A New Directions paperbook original."
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1827822
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- 209 pages
- Isbn
- 9780811225649
- Lccn
- 2017000506
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780811225649
- (OCoLC)961001993
- Label
- Vengeance is mine, all others pay cash, Eka Kurniawan ; translated by Annie Tucker
- Note
-
- Translated from the Indonesian
- Novel
- "A New Directions paperbook original."
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1827822
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- 209 pages
- Isbn
- 9780811225649
- Lccn
- 2017000506
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780811225649
- (OCoLC)961001993
Subject
- trueVoyeurism
- trueSexuality
- trueSexism
- Rape -- Fiction
- trueCrime
- Fiction
- trueGangsters
- trueHand-to-hand fighting
- Impotence
- trueImpotence
- Impotence -- Fiction
- Indonesia
- Indonesia -- Fiction
- trueJava
- trueLust
- truePolitical persecution
- trueMasculinity
- Rape
- trueWorking class men
- trueWomen bodyguards
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