~ Trade Paperback
~ Winner of the FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Award for Fiction - 2016
Set in a small town on the Indonesian coast, Man Tiger tells the story of two interlinked and tormented families and of Margio, a young man ordinary in all particulars except that he conceals within himself a supernatural female white tiger . . .
Lyrical and bawdy, experimental and political, Man Tiger is a supernatural tale of murder and desire that fascinatingly subverts the crime fiction genre with its unforgettable tale of literary magical realism from Eka Kurniawan, a critically acclaimed Indonesian writer who has been compared to Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Mark Twain.
“Biting and beautiful, the world Kurniawan invents is both familiar and unexpected, incorporating mystery, magical realism, and folklore, Man Tiger manages to entertain while offering readers insight into the traditions of a little-known South East Asian culture." -- Publishers Weekly