Man Tiger : A Novel

Description #34;After half a century, #34; writes renowned Indonesia scholar Benedict Anderson, #34;Pramoedya Ananta Toer has found a successor. #34; Eka Kurniawan has been described as the #34;brightest meteorite #34; in Indonesia #39;s new literary firmament, the author of two remarkable novels whose sheer beauty, elegance, cosmopolitanism, and ambition have brought comparisons not only to Pramoedya, universally considered Indonesia #39;s modern literary genius, but also to Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Mark Twain. A new generation of young literary figures in Indonesia, emerging after decades of repressive dictatorship ended in 1998, is renewing the culture of the world #39;s largest Muslim nation (and its language, which was only nationally instituted in 1945). Kurniawan #39;s Beauty Is a Wound and Man Tiger are the capstones of this movement. A slim, wry story set in an unnamed town near the Indian Ocean, Man Tiger tells the story of two interlinked and tormented families, and of Margio, an ordinary half-city, half-rural youngster who also happens to be half-man, half-supernatural female white tiger (in many parts of Indonesia, magical tigers protect good villages and families).At once elegant and bawdy, experimental and political, Man Tiger will help to establish Indonesia #39;s new voice, underrepresented in world literature, while demonstrating the influence of world literature on Indonesian writers. Product details Format Paperback | 192 pages Dimensions 129 x 189 x 13mm | 367g Publication date 31 Mar 2016 Publisher Verso Books Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom Language English Edition Statement Translation ISBN10 1781688591 ISBN13 9781781688595 Bestsellers rank 58,125