![]() ![]() ![]() It is the author who has decided exactly what is option A or B. ![]() The novel, she continues, is also a commentary on choice: While it may look like we have options, these options are predetermined. “It’s a novel about travel, and therefore it made sense to use a forking-path narrative structure, because when we travel we always ask: what if I had chosen that path? What about the road not taken? This structure allows the reader to see different versions of themselves on different paths, meeting different characters.” “I wanted to write about this feeling of gentayangan, of being in between, everywhere and nowhere,” explains the novel’s 40-year-old author, Intan Paramaditha. Written in an interactive format similar to the “Choose Your Own Adventure” children’s series, The Wandering, which was first published in 2017 in the original Indonesian as Gentayangan, moves from one place to the next, be it Berlin, New York, Lima or Amsterdam. You will find shelter, but never home.” So begins the protagonist’s – and the reader’s – journey. The devil’s gift, however, comes with a stern warning: “Adventure, or more precisely, wandering, will be your eternal lot. He gives her a pair of magical red shoes that allows her to fulfill her greatest desire: to travel the world. In the novel The Wandering, the protagonist gives into temptation and makes a deal with the devil. ![]()
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