TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paramaditha,Intan
AU  - Epstein,Stephen J.
TI  - Apple and knife
SN  - 9781925704006 :
U1  - [Fic] 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Melbourne, Victoria
PB  - Brow Books
KW  - Short stories, Indonesian
KW  - Horror tales
KW  - Indonesia
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Australian
KW  - Short stories
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Adult fiction
KW  - Print
KW  - Paranormal fiction
KW  - Horror fiction
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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