Apple and knife / Intan Paramaditha ; translated from the Indonesian by Stephen J. Epstein.

Paramaditha, Intan, 1979-, author
Epstein, Stephen J., 1962-, translator

London : Vintage Books, 2019.

208 pages ; 20 cm

This translation originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2018.

Inspired by horror fiction, myths and fairy tales, 'Apple and Knife' is an unsettling ride that swerves into the supernatural to explore the dangers and power of occupying a female body in today's world. These stories set in the Indonesian everyday - in corporate boardrooms, shanty towns, on dangdut stages - reveal a soupy otherworld stewing just beneath the surface. This is subversive feminist horror at its best, where men and women alike are arbiters of fear, and where revenge is sometimes sweetest when delivered from the grave.

9781784709792 (pbk)

899.22133
HOR

English
Indonesian

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