“12 Essential Short Story Collections by Women,” Books and Bao, February 15, 2022. “8 books for you to read to celebrate International Women’s Day,” Mashable, March 4, 2022. “Disobedient Women,” Norman Erikson Pasaribu, Mekong Review, Feb 8, 2018. “Apple and Knife by Intan Paramaditha,” Suzanne Steinbruckner, Readings, Feb 26, 2018. “Apple and Knife, Intan Paramaditha.” The Saturday Paper, Edition No. “ Fiction Review: Apple and Knife,” Cameron Woodhead, The Sydney Morning Herald, March 21, 2018. “ Intan Paramaditha’s short stories subvert the white fairytales of our childhood,” Shirley Le, SBS, 19 April, 2018. “ Apple and Knife by Intan Paramaditha and Ponti by Sharlene Teo,” Dominic Amerena, The Australian, April 28, 2018. “Lisa Bennett reviews Apple and Knife by Intan Paramaditha,” Lisa Bennett, Australian Book Review, May 2018. “ Apple and Knife: A Riot of Unruly Women,” Emily Bitto, The Monthly, May 4, 2018. “Apple and Knife by Intan Paramaditha,” Brooke Boland, ArtsHub, May 28, 2018. “Apple and Knife by Intan Paramaditha,” Annie Zhang, WritingNSW, August 15, 2018. “Review: Apple and Knife by Intan Paramaditha,” Will Heath, Books and Bao, December 4, 2018. Epstein,” Rachel Hill, Strange Horizons, December 10, 2018. “Apple and Knife by Intan Paramaditha, Translated by Stephen J. “Books of the Year,” The White Review, December 2018. “Breaking His Spell: Rewriting the Mythic Female Body in Intan Paramaditha’s Apple and Knife, ” Gema Charmaine Gonzales, SARE, Vol. Women carve a place for themselves in this world, finding ways to subvert norms or enacting brutalities on themselves and each other. 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. Solihin would give anything to make dangdut singer Salimah his wife – anything at all.

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. Mara finds herself brainstorming an ad campaign for Free Maxi Pads, with a little help from the menstruation-eating hag of her childhood. 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. 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. 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. First published by Brow Books in Australia, March 2018.

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