Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Fiction, International Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies, Adult, New Releases
ISBN: 9781529955644
Published: October 2025
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Page Extent: 192
Format: Paperback
RRP 275.00

Apple and Knife

Intan Paramaditha, Stephen J Epstein

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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 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.

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Intan Paramaditha

Intan Paramaditha

Intan Paramaditha is an Indonesian writer now based in Sydney. She is the acclaimed author of two short story collections, Sihir Perempuan (2005) and Kumpulan Budak Setan (2010, with Eka Kurniawan and Ugoran Prasad), from which the stories in her first collection in English, Apple and Knife, are drawn. Her fiction has received awards in Indonesia, including the Kompas Best Short Story Award, Tempo Best Literary Fiction of the Year, and Khatulistiwa Literary Awards shortlist. She holds a PhD from New York University and teaches Media and Film Studies at Macquarie University. The Wandering is her debut novel. intanparamaditha.com

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Stephen J Epstein

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