Apple and Knife, 9781529955644
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Fairytale meets horror in feminist Indonesian tales of taboo and revenge.
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    192 pages

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    1 December 2025

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Summary

Apple and Knife: Tales from the Indonesian Underworld

In this dazzling debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, fairytale, taboo, lust, and death all come together in a heady, intoxicating mix.

A black velvet butterfly darts out of a cave. Menstrual blood pools in the backseat of a car. Rats pour forth from an open doorway.

These stories, set in the Indonesian everyday - in corporate boardrooms, in shanty towns - reveal a soupy othe…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781529955644
ISBN-10:1529955645
Series:Weird Girls
Author:Intan Paramaditha, Stephen J. Epstein
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:1 December 2025
Weight:142g
Dimensions:199mm x 130mm x 13mm
About The Author

Intan Paramaditha

Intan Paramaditha is a writer and academic. Her novel The Wandering, translated from the Indonesian by Stephen J. Epstein, was nominated for the Stella Prize in Australia and awarded the Tempo Best Literary Fiction Prize in Indonesia, the English PEN Translates Award and the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant from PEN America. She is the author of the short-story collection Apple and Knife and editor of Deviant Disciples- Indonesian Women Poets, part of the Translating Feminisms series by Tilted Axis Press. Her essay ‘On the Complicated Questions Around Writing About Travel’ was selected for The Best American Travel Writing 2021. She holds a PhD from New York University and teaches Media and Film Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney.

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