Apple and Knife
Intan Paramaditha
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
3.63
· 8 ratings · 208 pages · Published: 01 Mar 2018
‘Dark, subversive... Here are fairy tales and myths reworked with a feminist bent’ Tatler
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 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.
Dark, humorous, and vividly realised, Apple and Knife brings together taboos, inversions, sex and death in a heady, intoxicating mix.
Tagged as:
- fantasy 4
- horror 3
- magical realism 3
- protagonists of colour 3
- spooky 3
- contemporary 2
- fairy tales 2
- retellings 2
- folktales & legends 2
- on the move 2
- supernatural 2
- gothic 1
- lgbtq+ 1
- female mc 1
- ghosts 1
- literary fiction 1
- Add topics
- format - reader age
- anthology 3
- adult fiction 1