The Dog Meows, The Cat Barks - Eka Kurniawan
Eka Kurniawan
- Pages · 128 pages
- Publication Date · 21/05/2026
- Genre · Fantasy
'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.
READERS LOVE The Dog Meows, The Cat Barks
'Insightful and easy to read: a window into a world I'd not read before' Netgalley 4*
'A sharp, unconventional look at human behaviour' Netgalley 4*
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