Night of a Thousand Hells: a subversive, shapeshifting tale of sisterhood, violence and grief
By Manjeet Ridon, Associate Dean International, Faculty of Arts, Design & Humanities, De Montfort University
Making the longlist this week for the US National Book Award for translated literature, Intan Paramaditha’s Night of a Thousand Hells is a subversive, shape-shifting novel in which family tragedy becomes political reckoning, horror exposes social violence, and familiar stories turn sinister.
Set in Indonesia, the novel opens in the aftermath of a suicide bombing…
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