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Sto caricando le informazioni... L'uomo tigre (2004)di Eka Kurniawan
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 3.5 stars In the opening of this book, we learn that one man has brutally murdered another. As the book explores the lead-up to this moment from several different angles, charting the deep and tragic relationships among members of an Indonesian family, we arrive at a fuller understanding of what has occurred, and why. This book was longlisted for the Man Booker International in 2016, and it's definitely a capital-L-Literary novel. With that said, I'm not sure that I'd say that I "enjoyed" it--it's definitely not a happy book. I wasn't really prepared for the darker content, especially the pretty graphic descriptions of violence and the domestic violence/sexual assault. I definitely think I see why this was done, and I think it was powerful, but I don't think that this is a sheer-enjoyment type of book. Originally published at https://reallifereading.com/2016/10/05/man-tiger-by-eka-kurniawan/ While not as well-rounded as Beauty is A Wound, Man Tiger, first published in 2004, is a great introduction to Eka Kurniawan and Indonesian literature. After all, it tops out at 172 pages, versus Beauty is a Wound (first published in 2002) which has 470 pages. Man Tiger is not so much a whodunnit as a whydunnit. There is a murder. A man in a small village has been killed. Everyone knows that it was Margio, who insists: “It wasn’t me,” he said calmly and without guilt. “There is a tiger inside my body.” There are a lot of mystical elements to the story, which is told in a cyclical, rather conversational manner (perhaps in the Indonesian storytelling fashion?). But this is also a story about an ill-matched relationship, a couple who are constantly at loggerheads, a broken family. Man Tiger could be described as crime fiction, maybe magic realism (although when I see those two words, I tend to flee from the book, so scratch that), domestic fiction? I don’t know, I guess the easy way out would be to file it under ‘translated fiction’ as it doesn’t really seem to fit into any proper genre. But if you’re looking for a different, diverse, translated read, one that’s quick, one that’s different, and yet also gory (you should see the way Margio kills the man), passionate, and just completely apt for autumn (i.e. ripe for any Readers Imbibing in Peril, or just up for a weird read). Well written, but I think some of the Indonesian author's words and ideas did not translate well into English. This is the story of a surprisingly violent murder in a small village, where a 20-year old boy-man tears open the throat of an older villager in the opening chapter. The rest of the book is spent providing the backstory of what motivated young Margio (the man tiger) to act as he did. I thought the book was well paced, but found the inconsistent timeline a bit hard to follow. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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""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"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Besides its plot, what is equally tantalizing about this novel is its English translation which I wholeheartedly believe to be reflective of the original. The nuance is present in both its native language and in its English allowing 'Man Tiger' to transcend linguistic barriers and impart a profound message about actions and their consequences across the generations. ( )