The Wandering

Translated by Stephen J. Epstein

The most ingenious, unique novel you will read all year, where you choose your own story as you travel across the world, from one of Asia's most exciting female writers.

Longlisted for the 2021 Stella Prize

You've grown roots, you're gathering moss. You're desperate to escape your boring life teaching English in Jakarta, to go out and see the world. So you make a Faustian pact with a devil, who gives you a gift, and a warning. A pair of red shoes to take you wherever you want to go.

Turn the page and make your choice.

You may become a tourist or an undocumented migrant, a mother or a murderer, and you will meet other travellers with their own stories to tell. Freedom awaits but borders are real. And no story is ever new.

'Sets you free to roam the Earth... an incisive commentary on the cosmopolitan condition' — Tiffany Tsao

ISBN: 9781784709808 | Published: 16 March 2021 (first published 2017) | Paperback | 448 pages