Eka Kurniawan’s Vengeance Is Mine is limp venture into violence

All Things Books / Review

About Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash,
Written by Adam Rivett, and was originally published in Australian,
Jan 13, 2018


After the ambition and squalid lyricism of his previous novels, Man Tiger and Beauty is a Wound, the latest from the Indonesian wunderkind is pure Hobbesian deliverance: nasty, brutish and short. Yet what might have at least offered teenage kicks — the PR blurb optimistically evokes Quentin Tarantino — instead grinds away joylessly and aimlessly, without ever truly coming to life.

Read the full article here.
error: