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Apple and Knife

Works in Translation

Intan Paramaditha, translated by Stephen J. Epstein
Published as a part of Reformations: Indonesian Literature in Translation, Dec 10, 2015

First published in Kumpulan Budak Setan as Apel dan Pisau.


Do you want some? For ten long seconds, I gazed at her, the past roiling in my thoughts, the present refusing to vanish. For ten long seconds she dangled the apple right in front of ...

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