Books That Changed Me

 

Intan Paramaditha is the author of Apple and Knife, a collection of dark stories about disobedient women. Her first novel, The Wandering, won a PEN Translates Award and is published by Harvill Secker.

Frankenstein
Mary Shelley

I found Frankenstein at the British Council library in Jakarta in the late ’90s. Just like Mary Shelley when she was writing her story, I was an angry 19-year-old, with a penchant for the gothic and sympathy for the monster.Frankenstein is a feminist critique of knowledge an...