In this article Malam Seribu Jahanam Intan Paramaditha
By Ratih Dwi Astuti, originally published in Personal Blog
Dec 09, 2025
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By Ratih Dwi Astuti, originally published in Personal Blog
Dec 09, 2025
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
But that is only the tip of the iceberg. Malam Seribu Jahanam, Intan Paramaditha’s second novel after the critically acclaimed Gentayangan in 2017 (published as The Wandering in English translation in 2020) is a picture of a common, next-door family heavily shaken by issues of gender, class and religion. The book depicts the lives and values of the Indonesian majority―Muslims, middle-class, patriarchal, though the characters are not Javanese; and what lies beneath those identities is what causes the cracks in their fragile ties.
But that is only the tip of the iceberg. Malam Seribu Jahanam, Intan Paramaditha’s second novel after the critically acclaimed Gentayangan in 2017 (published as The Wandering in English translation in 2020) is a picture of a common, next-door family heavily shaken by issues of gender, class and religion. The book depicts the lives and values of the Indonesian majority―Muslims, middle-class, patriarchal, though the characters are not Javanese; and what lies beneath those identities is what causes the cracks in their fragile ties.
Read the full article here.
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