'Brash, worldly and wickedly funny, Eka Kurniawan may be Southeast Asia's most ambitious writer in a generation' Economist
Once, Sato Reang's father tried to bully him into being a pious child. Now he's a little Devil.
He stops saying his prayers. He starts to run with the wild boys: drinking, fighting, stealing. He eats his fill of life, barges in where he pleases. Maybe he'll burn down the school...
If only Jamal, his strictly religious schoolmate, would join him. Sato intends to lead him astray and introduce him to worldly pleasures. Even if the consequences are darker than he could have imagined.
Devilishly funny and delicately moving, The Dog Meows, the Cat Barks is a lightning strike of a coming-of-age novel.
Born in West Java in 1975, Eka Kurniawan is a prize-winning Indonesian author and screenwriter whose books have been translated into 33 languages. In 2016, his novel Beauty is a Wound won the World Readers Award, was longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award and was an eight-time book of the year in the US. Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash, which was adapted into a film in 2021, is also available from Pushkin Press.
Annie Tucker is an award-winning translator from Indonesian to English who has spent years living in Java and Bali. As well as Beauty is a Wound, she has translated Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash and The Dog Meows, The Cat Barks for Pushkin Press.
