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Man Tiger

Eka Kurniawan,

Labodalih Sembiring (Translator)

Start date: February 1, 2021

Finish date: February 28, 2021

Why we're reading this: Indonesia
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Mar 12, 2021 Celia rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: ten-year-challenge, 52-2021, 2021-kindle-counted, reading-the-world-read, well-read-world-lit, reading-the-wrld, kindle-list, 2021-read, translated, fantasy-magical-realism

An awesome book written by an awesome author. Eka Kurniawan is an Indonesian writer and screenwriter. In 2016, Kurniawan became the first Indonesian writer to be nominated for the prestigious Man Booker International Prize. Man Tiger is that book.

The story starts with a murder. The tiger residing in Margio, our hero, bites the jugular of Anwar Sadat, and kills him. We spend the rest of the book finding out the background of why.

Two families are neighbors, Margio and his family — his father Koma ...more

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Jun 28, 2024 Shahar rated it really liked it

Shelves: reading-around-the-world, aroundtheworld24

4.1 – It is for this kind of books that I travel the world on pages.
A Greek\Shakespearian tragedy takes place in a small Indonesian village\town by the ocean.
The murder takes place in the first line of the book. Killer and victim named. The last jigsaw puzzle of the why is laid in the last 2 lines of the book. These last 2 lines are powerful- they breath hot air into the whole book.
The tragedy is of the killer but without justifying the deed or victimizing the victim. I think that in western ...more

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