
The Wandering: Choose Your Own Red Shoes Adventure
by Intan Paramaditha
Format: Paperback, Indonesian
512 page(s)
ISBN/ISBN13: /9786020377728
Published Oct 16, 2017 by Gramedia Pustaka Utama
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by Intan Paramaditha
Format: Paperback, Indonesian
512 page(s)
ISBN/ISBN13: /9786020377728
Published Oct 16, 2017 by Gramedia Pustaka Utama
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Buy Now from Amazon *
A novel about travel and displacement, capturing those who are tempted by the edges, those in motion and paralyzed, those who flee and get caught. Depending on your choice, the cursed journey of the red shoes will take you to New York the city of rats, Tijuana Border, a church in Haarlem, or a mosque in Jakarta, in an airless taxi or a train that would not stop, dead or alive (or bored). Forever “gentayangan” (wandering, haunting, being in between), you will encounter stories of travelers, tourists, and migrants, their escape and border crossing, their search for home, routes, and emergency exit.
Other/Related Editions

The Wandering
English / 2020

The Wandering
English / 2021

Wędrówka
Polish / 2023

Serseri
Turkish / 2023

Hōkō (彷徨)
Japanese / 2025
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News Jessicha Valentina in Intan Paramaditha’s ‘Gentayangan’ receives PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants (Jakarta Post, Dec 13, 2018)
PIcks in Reading Indonesia: 30 Books That Will Help You Understand the Southeast Asian Giant (Jakarta Globe, Sep 06, 2018)
News in ‘Fierce and Unconventional’ Intan Paramaditha Signs UK, Commonwealth Book Deals (Jakarta Globe, Mar 23, 2018)
News Katherine Cowdrey in Indonesian writer’s ‘fierce and unconventional’ fiction to Harvill (Bookseller, Mar 21, 2018)
Launch Dhania Putri Sarahtika in ‘Gentayangan’ Takes Readers on Adventures to Question Identity and Belonging (Jakarta Globe, Jan 08, 2018)
Gentayangan crosses many borders: the borders between countries and individuals and stories; the borders between reader and character and writer; the borders between “you” and “me.”
— Tiffany Tsao in Intan Paramaditha’s ‘Gentayangan’ crosses many borders (Jakarta Post, Nov 13, 2017)
— Tiffany Tsao in Intan Paramaditha’s ‘Gentayangan’ crosses many borders (Jakarta Post, Nov 13, 2017)