Apple and knife
Short stories. Selections
Paramaditha, Intan
creator
author.
Epstein, Stephen J.
translator.
text
short story
Short stories.
Short stories-Adult fiction-Print
Paranormal fiction.
Short stories.
Horror fiction.
vra
Melbourne, Victoria
Brow Books
2018
2018
monographic
eng
ind
189 pages ; 21 cm.
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 short fictions set in the Indonesian everyday?in corporate boardrooms, in shanty towns, on dangdut stages?reveal a soupy otherworld stewing just beneath the surface. Sometimes wacky and always engrossing, 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. Mara finds herself brainstorming an ad campaign for Free Maxi Pads, with a little help from the menstruation-eating hag of her childhood. Jamal falls in love with the rich and powerful Bambang, but it is the era of the smiling general and, if he?s not careful, he may find himself recruited to Bambang?s brutal cause. Solihin would give anything to make dangdut singer Salimah his wife ? anything at all. In the globally connected and fast-developing Indonesia of Apple and Knife, taboos, inversions, sex and death all come together in a heady, intoxicating mix full of pointed critiques and bloody mutilations. Women carve a place for themselves in this world, finding ways to subvert norms or enacting brutalities on themselves and each other.
The blind woman without a toe -- Blood -- Doors -- Kuchuk hanem -- Scream in a bottle -- The queen -- Vampire -- Beauty and the seventh dwarf -- The well -- The obsessive twist -- The porcelain doll -- Apple and knife -- A single firefly, a thousand rats.
Intan Paramaditha ; translated by Stephen J. Epstein.
Translated into English from the original Indonesian.
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Short stories, Indonesian
Horror tales
Indonesia
Social life and customs
Fiction
Australian
[Fic]
9781925704006 :
ANL
171203
20180424143544.0
000061234225
eng