{"product_id":"apple-and-knife-weird-girls-vintage-classics","title":"Weird Girls - Apple and Knife","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe VINTAGE CLASSICS WEIRD GIRLS series ventures into the dark heart of the uncanny with disturbing, and disturbed, protagonists who dare to defy the norm. Bold, deviant, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA dazzling, provocative debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, putting fierce female characters centre stage in brilliantly funny and sharp twists on the fairy tale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by horror fiction, myths and fairy tales, \u003cem\u003eApple and Knife\u003c\/em\u003e is an unsettling ride that swerves into the supernatural to explore the dangers and power of occupying a woman's body in today’s world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese stories set in the Indonesian everyday – in corporate boardrooms, in shanty towns, on dangdut stages – reveal a soupy otherworld stewing just beneath the surface. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntan Paramaditha is a writer and academic. Her novel \u003cem\u003eThe Wandering\u003c\/em\u003e (Harvill Secker, Penguin Random House UK), translated from the Indonesian by Stephen J. Epstein, was nominated for the Stella Prize in Australia and awarded the Tempo Best Literary Fiction Prize in Indonesia, the English PEN Translates Award and the PEN\/Heim Translation Fund Grant from PEN America. She is the author of the short-story collection \u003cem\u003eApple and Knife \u003c\/em\u003eand editor of \u003cem\u003eDeviant Disciples: Indonesian Women Poets\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Translator\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStephen J. Epstein directs the Asian Languages and Cultures Programme at Victoria University of Wellington where he is Associate Professor. He has translated several works of Korean and Indonesian fiction, including \u003cem\u003eThe Korean Wave: A Sourcebook\u003c\/em\u003e, co-edited with Yun Mi Hwang (Academy of Korean Studies Press, 2016) and Intan Paramaditha’s novel \u003cem\u003eThe Wandering: A Red Shoes Adventure\u003c\/em\u003e (Harvill Secker, 2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 12.9 x 1.2 x 19.8 cm\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46589437771933,"sku":"9781529955644","price":69.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/7575\/1837\/files\/apple_and_knife_weird_girls_vintage_classics_intan_paramaditha_9781529955644.jpg?v=1741943639","url":"https:\/\/mphonline.com\/products\/apple-and-knife-weird-girls-vintage-classics","provider":"MPHOnline.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}