Vengeance is mine, all others pay cash
By: Eka Kurniawan ; translated by Annie Tucker
Contributors: Tucker, Annie, translator; Kurniawan, Eka, 1975-
Series: New Directions paperbook -- NDP1382; New Directions paperbook -- 1382.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780811225649
Subjects: Impotence; Rape; Fiction
Work titles: Seperti dendam, rindu harus dibayar tuntas
Description: "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: Translation from the Indonesian of: Seperti dendam, rindu harus dibayar tuntas.

"A New Directions paperbook original."

Translated from the Indonesian.