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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Apple and Knife
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'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.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Brow Books , 2018 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 208p.
      Note/s:
      • Published March 2018

      ISBN: 9781925704006
    • London,
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      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Vintage UK ,
      2018 .
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      Extent: 192p.p.
      ISBN: 9781787301160 (hbk)
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Vintage UK ,
      2019 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 192p.p.
      ISBN: 9781784709792 (pbk)

Works about this Work

Review : Apple and Knife by Intan Paramaditha Brooke Boland , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , May 2018;

— Review of Apple and Knife Intan Paramaditha , 2018 selected work short story

'The nuanced understanding and subtlety of Paramaditha's short stories, which cleverly navigates the intersection of contemporary setting and folklore, is masterful.'

Intan Paramaditha Apple and Knife KN , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 3-9 March 2018;

'This new story collection by the Indonesian-born Intan Paramaditha uses horror as a vehicle for representing the experiences of women living in patriarchy and for expressing feminist anger. The results are both unsettling and intoxicating. Often revising fairytales, the stories are reminiscent of Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber, though the direct manner of narration resembles the narrative style of Haruki Murakami, who also has a penchant for the Gothic.' (Introduction)

Review : Apple and Knife by Intan Paramaditha Brooke Boland , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , May 2018;

— Review of Apple and Knife Intan Paramaditha , 2018 selected work short story

'The nuanced understanding and subtlety of Paramaditha's short stories, which cleverly navigates the intersection of contemporary setting and folklore, is masterful.'

Intan Paramaditha Apple and Knife KN , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 3-9 March 2018;

'This new story collection by the Indonesian-born Intan Paramaditha uses horror as a vehicle for representing the experiences of women living in patriarchy and for expressing feminist anger. The results are both unsettling and intoxicating. Often revising fairytales, the stories are reminiscent of Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber, though the direct manner of narration resembles the narrative style of Haruki Murakami, who also has a penchant for the Gothic.' (Introduction)

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