**A The White Review Book of the Year**
A dazzling and provocative debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, putting fierce and fabulous female characters centre stage in brilliantly funny and sharp twists on fairy tale.
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.
Dark, humorous, and vividly realised, Apple and Knife brings together taboos, inversions, sex and death in a heady, intoxicating mix.
| ISBN: | 9781787301160 |
| Publication date: | 6th December 2018 |
| Author: | Intan Paramaditha |
| Publisher: | Harvill Secker an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 187 pages |
| Genres: |
Shorter Reads Feminism and feminist theory Narrative theme: Social issues Fiction in translation Horror and Supernatural Fiction Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales |
**A The White Review Book of the Year**A dazzling and provocative debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, putting fierce and fabulous female characters centre stage in brilliantly funny and sharp twists on fairy tale.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.
Apple and Knife features in the following genres: Shorter Reads, Feminism and feminist theory, Narrative theme: Social issues, Fiction in translation, Horror and Supernatural Fiction, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales
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Apple and Knife was written by Intan Paramaditha and published by Harvill Secker an imprint of Random House
Apple and Knife has 187 pages