The Saturday Paper: Intan Paramaditha, The Wandering
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.
The Guardian: The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha review – existential journeys
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.