Sydney Morning Herald - Books That Changed Me: Intan Paramaditha (May 30, 2020).
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Options, The Edge Malaysia: 'The Wandering' tackles politics and privileges of travel and desire, and the freedoms and limitations of the choices we make.
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The Straits Times: Grown-up, globetrotting take on Choose Your Own Adventure books has 15 endings and took nine years to write. In Indonesian author Intan Paramaditha's debut novel, The Wandering, the narrator puts on a pair of magical red shoes gifted by the Devil, which lets the wearer wander the world - but will not let her stop.
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The Saturday Paper: Reminiscent of postmodern classics such as Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, The Wandering is a cleverly crafted tale about the illusion of free will, and the stakes and pressures that accompany the choices influenced by one’s identity in the world.
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The Wandering is the Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha’s first novel. And what a debut it is: an ingenious choose-your-own-adventure challenge, it is at least five books in one, a series of forking paths as imagined by Leibniz, Borges or Deleuze.
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The Guardian, interview: The Indonesian author’s novel The Wandering allows readers to select their own path - but follows characters whose lives have often been decided for them.
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An interview with Restless Magazine (February 2020).
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The Wandering is on Book Riot‘s list of literary highlights.
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Interview with Jonathan Green, Blueprint for Living, ABC Radio National.
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Interview with Mariella Frostrup, BBC Radio 4 Open Book.
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“When I started writing, I wanted to do something different: to explore bodies and sexuality in a more grotesque way, looking at the horrific and ugly. “ - Interview with The Bookseller.
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The Jakarta Post: Intan’s 2017 adventure novel Gentayangan: Pilih Sendiri Petualangan Sepatu Merahmu (The Wandering: Choose Your Own Red Shoes Adventure) won the PEN Translates Award and Heim Translation Fund Grant from PEN America.
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Apple and Knife is included in The White Review 2018 Books of the Year.
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CHINA DAILY - A strong contingent of women is leading the pack of writers featured in the newest edition of Hong Kong International Literary Festival which opens today.
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SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - …They are the creations of emerging women writers whose provocative stories and styles are pushing the boundaries of what contemporary literature can be and do.
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THE AUSTRALIAN - Described as “two of Southeast Asia’s most exciting literary talents”, Paramaditha and Teo have both created darkly funny, deeply feminist books that savagely skewer the conservatism and hypocrisies of their respective societies.
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Harvill Secker has acquired two “fierce and unconventional” books from Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha. It will publish feminist short story collection Apple and Knife in spring 2019 and The Wandering, a novel about displacement where the reader chooses their own narrative path, in 2020.
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