The wandering
Paramaditha, Intan, 1979-2021
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You've grown roots, you're gathering moss. You're desperate to escape your boring life teaching English in Jakarta, to go out and see the world. So you make a Faustian pact with a devil, who gives you a gift, and a warning. A pair of red shoes to take you wherever you want to go. But where will you choose to go? To New York, to follow your dreams? To Berlin or Amsterdam? Lima or Tijuana? Or onto a train that will never stop? You're forever wandering, everywhere and nowhere, but are you ever home? The choices you make may mean you end up as a tourist or an undocumented migrant, a mother or a murderer, and you will meet many travellers with their own stories to tell. As your paths cross and intertwine, you'll come to realise that no story is ever new.
Main title:
The wandering / Intan Paramaditha ; translated from the Indonesian by Stephen J. Epstein.
Author:
Paramaditha, Intan, 1979-, authorEpstein, Stephen J., 1962-, translator
Imprint:
London : Vintage Books, 2021.
Collation:
432 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
This translation originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2020.
Awards:
English PEN Award
ISBN:
9781784709808 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
899.22133
Language:
EnglishIndonesian
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BRN:
4960835