Apple and Knife by Intan Paramaditha Paperback Book 9781529955644

A dazzling provocative debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha putting fierce female characters centre stage in brilliantly funny and sharp twists on fairy taleInspired 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 womans body in todays worldThese 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 graveDark subversive Here are fairy tales and myths reworked with a feminist bent TatlerThe Vintage Classics Weird Girls series Dive into the depraved delectable depths of weird fiction with nine books by nine pioneering female authors Bold disruptive chilling and enchanting these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in