![]() ![]() The Wandering (published in its original Indonesian in 2017 as Gentayangan) offers its reader a hyper-mobile participation in its story its form is that of a choose-your-own-adventure challenge. Intan Paramaditha’s tongue-in-cheek, magical-realist handling of border-crossing – as a thing only made possible via the voodoo of a literal demon – accrues, under the heavy warp of 2020’s coronavirus context, an extra-uncanny resonance. ![]() Casual border-crossing is now inherently aberrant, anachronistic even, a practice that will come attendant with curtailment and constraint even as lockdown lifts. In COVID-19 times when space is shrunken, place more grimly partitioned, and mobility throttled, a novel about ‘the highs and lows of global nomadism’ like The Wandering gets an unintended inflation in its surreality quotient. ![]()
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