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001 2015019933
003 DLC
005 20150917081440.0
008 150707s2015 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2015019933
020 $a9781781688595 (paperback)
020 $a9781781688601
020 $a9781781688618
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
041 1 $aeng$hind
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPL5089.K78$bL413 2015
082 00 $a899/.2213$223
084 $aFIC000000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aKurniawan, Eka,$d1975-
240 10 $aLelaki harimau.$lEnglish
245 10 $aMan tiger /$cEka Kurniawan ; translated by Labodalih Sembiring ; [introduction by Benedict Anderson].
264 1 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bVerso,$c2015.
300 $axiii, 172 pages ;$c20 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a""After half a century," writes renowned Indonesia scholar Benedict Anderson, "Pramaoedya Ananta Toer has found a successor." Eka Kurniawan has been described as the "brightest meteorite" in Indonesia's new literary firmament, the author of two remarkable novels whose sheer beauty, elegance, cosmopolitanism, and ambition have brought comparisons not only to Pramaoedya, universally considered Indonesia's modern literary genius, but also to Salman Rushdie, Gabriel García Marquez, and Mark Twain. A new generation of young literary figures in Indonesia, emerging after decades of repressive dictatorship ended in 1998, is renewing the culture of the world's largest Muslim nation (and its language, which was only nationally instituted in 1945). Kurniawan's Beauty Is a Wound and Man Tiger are the capstones of this movement. A slim, wry story set in an unnamed town near the Indian Ocean, Man Tiger tells the story of two interlinked and tormented families, and of Margio, an ordinary half-city, half-rural youngster who also happens to be half-man, half-supernatural female white tiger (in many parts of Indonesia, magical tigers protect good villages and families). At once elegant and bawdy, experimental and political, Man Tiger will help to establish Indonesia's new voice, underrepresented in world literature, while demonstrating the influence of world literature on Indonesian writers"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 7 $aFICTION / General.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aSembiring, Labodalih,$etranslator.
856 42 $3Cover image$u9781781688595.jpg