The Wandering - Couverture rigide

Paramaditha, Intan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1787301176 ISBN 13 : 9781787301177

Editeur : Harvill Secker, 2020

Synopsis

*The most unusual novel you will read all year, where you create your own story*

'An ingenious choose-your-own-adventure challenge... Questions such as: “Where am I going?”... “Which choice will make my life worthwhile?” feel existential and urgent... Who can travel, and on what conditions, is one of the primary human rights questions of our era, and The Wandering skilfully takes it on.' Guardian


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.

You’re forever wandering, everywhere and nowhere, but where is your home?

And 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?

The choices you make about which pages to turn to may mean you’ll become 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 soon realise that no story is ever new.

The Wandering is a novel about the highs and lows of global nomadism, the politics and privileges of travel and desire, and the freedoms and limitations of the choices we make, by one of Asia’s most exciting writers. It’s a reminder that borders are real, and a playful experiment that turns the traditional adventure story on its head.

Winner of an English PEN Translates Award, and a Heim Translation Fund Grant from PEN America

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Intan Paramaditha is an Indonesian writer now based in Sydney. She is the acclaimed author of two short story collections, Sihir Perempuan (2005) and Kumpulan Budak Setan (2010, with Eka Kurniawan and Ugoran Prasad), from which the stories in her first collection in English, Apple and Knife, are drawn. Her fiction has received awards in Indonesia, including the Kompas Best Short Story Award, Tempo Best Literary Fiction of the Year, and Khatulistiwa Literary Awards shortlist. She holds a PhD from New York University and teaches Media and Film Studies at Macquarie University. The Wandering is her debut novel. intanparamaditha.com

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvill Secker
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1787301176
• ISBN 13: 9781787301177
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Harvill Secker; https://www.thalesgroup.com/en; ; Westarpstr. 2; Berlin; Berlin; 10779; Allemagne