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Apple and Knife
Author: | Intan Paramaditha |
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Vintage, 2019 Harvill Secker, 2018 |
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Book Type: | Collection |
Genre: | Fantasy / Horror |
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Synopsis
Putting fierce and fabulous female characters centre stage in brilliantly funny and sharp twists on fairy tales...
Inspired by horror fiction, myths and fairy tales, Apple & 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 stories set in the Indonesian everyday -- in corporate boardrooms, 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.
Dark, humorous, and vividly realised, Apple & Knife brings together taboos, inversions, sex and death in a heady, intoxicating mix.
Contents:
- The Blind Woman Without a Toe - short fiction
- Blood - short fiction
- Doors - short fiction
- Kuchuk Hanem - short fiction
- Scream in a Bottle - short fiction
- The Queen - short fiction
- Vampire - short fiction
- Beauty and the Seventh Dwarf - short fiction
- The Well - short fiction
- The Obsessive Twist - short fiction
- The Porcelain Doll - short fiction
- Apple and Knife - short fiction
- A Single Firefly, a Thousand Rats - short fiction
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