Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash [Paperback]

Kurniawan tells the ribald, noir-inflected, and oddly epic story of a mans quest to regain his sexual virility...This is an almost unbelievably fun and weird novel.The physicality of his prose and his story is invigorating.Political and profound, even though it uses language drawn from pulp fiction and popular movies. Kurniawan tells a story about injustice, the limits of revenge and the redemptive power of love.A tragicomedy Indonesian thriller... By turns a soft porn flick, a manic road thriller and a martial arts movie... A blast of a bookA potent blend of grounded realism and flighty fantasy... a pulpy, visceral tale of sex, violence and comeuppanceDark, sexually charged and subversive comedy...The best action-packed crime comedy about murder for hire and male impotence you'll read this year!Vivid, bawdy, comic, and arresting, the excitingnew novel by the Indonesian phenomenon, Eka Kurniawan