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What happens when someone in your family commits an “earth-shatteringly evil deed”? The Indonesian author Intan Paramaditha’s Night of a Thousand Hells – translated by Stephen Epstein and Tiffany Tsao – opens with a truly evil act when Annisa, the youngest of three sisters, takes part in a 2018 terrorist attack in Indonesia that leaves 12 dead and 40 injured, including her own two-year-daughter, who perishes in the suicide-murder spree. Annisa’s older sisters, Mutiara and Maya, are left to literally pick up the pieces as they are forced to confront the haunting, buried truths of their family past and ponder how a relative could destroy her own child. The spectre of their younger sister (who is praised on social media for her “beauty”) casts a long shadow. Annisa is hard to ignore in death not least because “round her ankle hangs a chain of corpses, dangling daintily like charms”, in Paramaditha’s memorably macabre simile.