ABC News - In a year without travel, this Indonesian author lets you choose your own adventure
The story starts with a pair of red shoes and a deal with the devil. But where it ends is up to reader — sort of. That's the concept behind Indonesian author Intan Paramaditha's latest novel, The Wandering. It's been longlisted for the Stella Prize — Australia's book award for women and non-binary authors — which this year features the most diverse array of writers in its eight-year history.
Nikkei Asia: Indonesian travel novel a tribute to open borders
NIKKEI ASIA - John Krich, July 31, 2020 - More than nine years ago the Indonesian feminist writer Intan Paramaditha began working on her first novel, a structurally ambitious pop fable that aimed primarily at liberating women from traditional roles to take to the roads of the world.
Options, The Edge: Intan Paramaditha explores displacement, feminism and the road not taken
Options, The Edge Malaysia: 'The Wandering' tackles politics and privileges of travel and desire, and the freedoms and limitations of the choices we make.
The Straits Times: Don the Devil's shoes and pick your own path
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.
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.
The Guardian - Intan Paramaditha: 'We are always haunted by the road not taken'
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.