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Intan Paramaditha is an Indonesian author and a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow. Her story collection Apple and Knife is part of the Vintage Classics Weird Girls series, and her novel The Wandering was longlisted for the Stella Prize and received the English PEN Translates Award. More about this author >
Stephen J. Epstein is an Associate Professor at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, where his research focuses on contemporary Korean society and popular culture. A translator of Korean and Indonesian literature, his works include Who Ate Up All the Shinga? by Park Wan-suh, The Long Road by Kim In-suk, and Intan Paramaditha's Apple and Knife and The Wandering. More about this author >
Tiffany Tsao is a novelist and literary translator. She is the author of But Won't I Miss Me and The Majesties. Her translations have been awarded the PEN Translation Prize, the NSW Premier’s Translation Prize, the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses, and longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize. More about this author >
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The novel opens with a devastating act: the youngest of three sisters becomes a suicide bomber. In the aftermath, her surviving siblings are forced to confront the violent, buried truths of their family history. Their search leads them to long-concealed secrets, and to the prophecies of their grandmother, whose shadowy wisdom has shaped their fates.
Set across Indonesia, the United States, and Australia, the novel explores class divides, sisterhood, migration, shame, abandonment, and the politics of care—all through a ghostly, atmospheric lens that draws on Asian folktales and occult traditions.
