Shortly before Margio committed murder, his father, Komar bin Syueb, passed away - a father he hated, and whom he had talked of killing. Instead, most of Man Tiger is a domestic story. The man-tiger concept is one Kurniawan presents well, yet it turns out to be a relatively small part of the story - though certainly significant, both in its history and in Margio's efforts to tame his beast. "It wasn't me," he said calmly and without guilt. Margio is the 'man tiger' of the title, confessing or claiming, after he is taken into custody: The murderer is Margio - and Margio wasn't quite himself in the brutal commission of the crime of Anwar Sadat (no relation to the former Egyptian president). Man Tiger may not seem like much of a murder mystery, given that the opening words reveal who killed whom, yet in retracing the steps that led to the crime, as "cut and dried" as it seems, and in exploring the motive behind it - revealed only at the book's conclusion - Kurniawan keeps the reader in mystery-like suspense.
We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure. Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review 's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. Like a good crime novel, Man Tiger works best when read in a single sitting, and its propulsive suspense is all the more remarkable because Kurniawan reveals both victim and murderer in the first sentence." - Jon Fasman, The New York Times Book Review " Man Tiger is tight, focused and thrilling.Man Tiger is particularly effective in deploying some of the classic techniques of the crime genre while subverting others" - Deborah Smith, The Guardian (.) Refreshingly, Kurniawan puts value on literature as entertainment, and his books are certainly that. " Man Tiger is slender and taut, with the central supernatural element given relatively little page time and the nation’s history collapsed into oblique glimpses."(A) slimmer volume but just as savage a critique of violence against Indonesia’s women." - Lucy Popescu, Financial Times.With an Introduction by Benedict Anderson.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.
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