Winner of the Financial Times Emerging Voices Award "Against the killings of those years and the collective amnesia used to blank out the fate of [Indonesia's] victims--a kind of second death, as it were--Kurniawan's fiction summons its legions of ghosts. Against the strongmen who presided over violence and abuse, it raises the dead Dewi Ayu and brings to life a magic tigress hungry for justice." --Siddhartha Deb, New Republic "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 "Can't-Miss New Read" -- Huffington Post 2015 Fall Books Preview "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 "[ Man Tiger is] signature Kurniawan in its serious playfulness.
It alternates flash and inner quiet. We feel everything from the tenderness of family meals to the roughness of a torn jugular." -- BOMB Magazine "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 " Man Tiger is a novel of mystery, suspense, and magical realism . Kurniawan has already been compared to writers like Gabriel García Márquez, so he's for sure one to put on your list.
" --Susie Rodarme, Book Riot "[It's] telling that many have deemed Kurniawan the next Pramoedya Ananta Toer, an acclaimed pioneer of socialist realism." --Gillian Terzis, The New Yorker "A slim, wry story . at once elegant and bawdy, experimental, and political." --Allison Noelle Conner, The Offing (from The LA Review of Books ) "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." -- Guardian "What good fortune that English-speaking readers may now find ourselves enchanted, confronted, and perhaps transformed by Kurniawan's work." -- Bookforum "[Man Tiger's] explosive prose and provocative employment of fantastical elements will startle any reader." --Claire Fallon, Huffington Post "[Kurniawan] seems destined to join the ranks of our great storytellers like Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez.
" -- Literary Hub.