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Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash


originally published in The Economist

Jul 13, 2017

EKA KURNIAWAN’S hugely inventive fiction is a potent blend of grounded realism and flighty fantasy. It has led some to describe him as Indonesia’s finest writer since Pramoedya Ananta Toer, who died in 2006.


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