{"product_id":"apple-and-knife-intan-paramaditha","title":"Apple and Knife (Intan Paramaditha)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this dazzling debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, fairytale, taboo, lust and death all come together in a heady, intoxicating mix.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA black velvet butterfly darts out of a cave. Menstrual blood pools in the backseat of a car. Rats pour forth from an open doorway.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese stories set in the Indonesian everyday - in corporate boardrooms, in shanty towns - reveal a soupy otherworld stewing just beneath the surface. Melding horror and myth, this is subversive feminist fiction at its finest, where men and women alike are arbiters of fear, and where revenge is sometimes sweetest when delivered from the grave.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Vintage Classics Weird Girls series: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of weird fiction with nine books by nine pioneering female authors. Bold, disruptive, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIntan Paramaditha \u003c\/b\u003eis a writer and academic. Her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Wandering\u003c\/i\u003e (Harvill Secker, Penguin Random House UK), 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 \u003ci\u003eApple and Knife\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eDeviant Disciples: Indonesian Women Poets\u003c\/i\u003e, part of the Translating Feminisms series by Tilted Axis Press. Her essay 'On the Complicated Questions Around Writing About Travel' was selected for \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Travel Writing 2021\u003c\/i\u003e. She holds a PhD from New York University and teaches Media and Film Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney. intanparamaditha.com\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 192 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65820713779549,"sku":"K098535367","price":10.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9853536700001A.jpg?v=1788628929","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/apple-and-knife-intan-paramaditha","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}