Man Tiger: A Novel

Synopsis

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 to salman rushdie, gabriel garcía márquez 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).