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Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash
Written by Nicole Rudick, originally published in Paris Review
Jan 19, 2018
Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash
Written by Nicole Rudick, originally published in Paris Review
Jan 19, 2018
I recently read Eka Kurniawan’s novel Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash as if either the book or I were outfitted with afterburners. Vengeance is a comic picaresque that the publisher has likened to a Quentin Tarantino film; Kurniawan’s prose, translated from the Indonesian by Annie Tucker, is pungent and blunt, but there’s more talk of fighting than actual fights, and a scene in which a pair of 18-wheelers battle for dominance at high speeds on a two-lane road could not have been reproduced in film to such great effect.
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