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Jan 09, 2025

Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash: Review

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Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash


Written by Preeja Aravind, originally published in Free Press Journal

Oct 22, 2017

First impression is crucial. It may make or break a deal; forge or destroy a friendship; kill or start a bond. The first impression an author makes, with his any book, on his reader can either earn him a fan or a cynic. That book need not be his best creation, but it has to tempt the reader to pick his next creation for sure. Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash may not be Eka Kurniawan’s best book (his earlier novel Beauty is a Wound was nominated for Man Booker Prize and is listed as the top 100 notable books by New York Times), but it is the first book I have read by him. And Mr Kurniawan has definitely not earned a cynic.

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