![]() ![]() ![]() More details of the killing quickly follow – “The kid bit through his jugular” – but, as to why, no-one can say: “On the evening Margio killed Anwar Sadat, Kyai Jahro was blissfully busy with his fishpond.” What happened is reveal in the very first sentence: ![]() Man Tiger is a murder story where there is no mystery regarding the murderer, only the motive. His UK debut came the same year, however, with his second novel, Man Tiger, translated by Labodalih Sembiring. This, unfortunately, is not eligible for the Man Booker International Prize, having yet to receive a UK publication (though one is scheduled for June thanks to Pushkin Press, meaning that it could well appear on next year’s long list). Although Eka Kurniawan was first published in his native Indonesia in 2000, it was only in 2015 that he came to prominence in the English-speaking world with the translation of his first novel, Beauty is a Wound. ![]()
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