The wandering : a red shoes adventure
Paramaditha, Intan, 1979-2020
Book
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.
Main title:
The wandering : a red shoes adventure / Intan Paramaditha ; translated from the Indonesian by Stephen J. Epstein.
Author:
Paramaditha, Intan, 1979-, authorEpstein, Stephen J., 1962-, translator
Imprint:
London : Harvill Secker, 2020.©2020
Collation:
436 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
First published with the title Gentayangan: Pilih sendiri petualangan sepatu merahmu in Indonesia by Gramedia Pusaka Utama in 2017.Translated from the Indonesian.
Awards:
Winner: English Pen Award.
ISBN:
97817873011849781787301184 (paperback)
Dewey class:
899.22133
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
628588
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | Fiction | PARA | Available |
| Library at the Dock | Fiction | PARA | Available |