Praise for Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan: "Brash, worldly and wickedly funny, Eka Kurniawan may be South-East Asia's most ambitious writer in a generation. Eka is shaping up to be [Indonesia's] Murakami: approaching social concerns at an angle rather than head-on, with hefty doses of surrealism and wry humour." - The Economist "Tight, focused and thrilling. Like a good crime novel, Man Tiger works best when read in a single sitting, and its propulsive suspense is all the more remarkable because Kurniawan reveals both victim and murderer in the first sentence." - Jon Fasman, New York Times Book Review "A supernatural tale of murder and desire fascinatingly subverts the crime genre. Kurniawan's writing demonstrates an affinity with literary heavyweights such as, yes, García Márquez and Dostoevsky." - Deborah Smith, Guardian "Kurniawan creates a vivid sense of poverty and rural isolation and weaves magic realism into his narratives to terrific effect. It's easy to see why he is being compared to Gabriel García Márquez and hailed as one of the leading lights of contemporary Indonesian fiction.

" - Lucy Popescu, Financial Times "[It's] telling that many have deemed Kurniawan the next Pramoedya Ananta Toer, an acclaimed pioneer of socialist realism." - Gillian Terzis, The New Yorker "Without a doubt the most original, imaginatively profound, and elegant writer of fiction in Indonesia today: its brightest and most unexpected meteorite." - Benedict Anderson, author of Imagined Communities "In terms of the literary novel, the year's most stirring revelation is Eka Kurniawan . Imagine if Gogol adapted the films of Weerasethakul into novels." - Jonthan Sturgeon, Flavorwire "The world Kurniawan invents is familiar and unexpected, incorporating mystery, magical realism, and folklore . Biting and beautiful . This wild and enthralling novel manages to entertain while offering readers insight into the traditions of a little-known South East Asian culture. Kurniawan has officially put the West on notice.

" - Publishers Weekly.