Man Tiger

Book — Novel

An extraordinarily beautiful, sly, ribald, and compulsively readable novel.

A slim, wry story set in an unnamed town near the Indian Ocean, Man Tiger tells the story of two interlinked and tormented families, and of Margio, an ordinary half-city, half-rural youngster who also happens to be half-man, half-supernatural female white tiger (in many parts of Indonesia, magical tigers protect good villages and families).¹

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Author Eka Kurniawan
Translator Labodalih Sembiring

Format Paperback, English
Page(s) 192
ISBN/ISBN13 /9781781688595
Published Date Sep 07, 2015
Publisher Verso Books

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If I were to consider my experience with Beauty is a Wound, then I have a lot to expect from Man Tiger.
— in First Impression Friday: Man Tiger (Jun 23, 2023)

Eka Kurniawan succeeded in presenting a drama wrapped in an unusual tragedy, relying on unique plot development and colorful language games.
— in Man Tiger, A New Perspective on Language and Flow (Mar 24, 2023)

I read the and more sensually descriptive passages as Eka Kurniawan’s strategy of having the reader delve into the world of love and lovemaking and how this world of intense delight too, in the end, contributed to the end things: death of the lover mauled by a “man tiger”.
— in A Close Reading Of Eka Kurniawan’s Suspense-Building In ‘Man Tiger’ (Jan 14, 2021)

By preserving the Indonesian words, there are values that bring along cultural and Indonesian unique characteristics. This preservation is important, especially if applied to Eka Kurniawan's work, as he represents picturesque Indonesia in his narration.
— in Cultural (Un)translatability in Kurniawan’s Man Tiger (Jul 01, 2018)

Man Tiger takes a different approach, for whilst we are still immersed in Eka Kurniawan’s tropics overgrowing with palm trees, cassava and papaya, the magical and the supernatural always make way for reality and are pushed aside before it
— in Eka Kurniawan’s Man Tiger: Fiction that Brings us Back to the World (May 20, 2018)

The Indonesian author Eka Kurniawan reverts to old folk beliefs in the novel ‘Man Tiger’. It covers not only a psychological drama but also many layers of his native culture.
— in Man Tiger (Eka Kurniawan, 2015) (Oct 21, 2017)

In “Beauty Is a Wound” and “Man Tiger” — a slimmer work — his real subject is unruly, untameable and often unquenchable desires.
— in Sunday Book Review: ‘Beauty Is a Wound’ and ‘Man Tiger’ by Eka Kurniawan (Sep 09, 2015)