| Record Number |
20952 |
| ISBN |
9781787301184 |
| 1787301184 |
| Location |
F PAR |
| Author |
Paramaditha, Intan, 1979- (author.). |
| UNIFORM TITLE |
English. |
| Title |
The wandering : a red shoes adventure / Intan Paramaditha ; translated by Stephen J. Epstein. |
| Published |
London : Harvill Secker, 2020. |
| ©2020. |
| Collation |
436 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Content types |
text |
| Carrier type |
volume |
| General Note |
First published with the title Gentayangan: Pilih sendiri petualangan sepatu merahmu in Indonesia by Gramedia Pusaka Utama in 2017. |
| Stella Prize longlist 2021. |
| Summary Note |
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. |
| Language Note |
Translated from the Indonesian.. |
| Awards Note |
Winner: English Pen Award. |
| Subject |
English teachers -- Fiction |
| Shoes -- Fiction |
| Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction |
| Voyages and travels -- Fiction |
| Interpersonal relations -- Fiction |
| Magic -- Fiction |
| Geographic Name |
Jakarta Barat (Indonesia) -- Fiction |
| Added Name |
Epstein, Stephen J.,1962-, (translator). |
| Internet Site |
Stella Prize |
