The Wandering

Never accept gifts lightly, the elders warned, but you asked for the package anyway: a gift and a curse. The Devil Lover has given you a pair of red shoes, and now you are condemned to roam, or rather to haunt, sheltered but never at home. Written in the form of a choose-your-own-adventure book, the novel is about travel and uprootedness, about people who are tempted by borders, who move and get stuck, who flee and are caught. Depending on the path you choose, the cursed red shoes take you to New York, the Tijuana border, a church in Haarlem or a mosque in Jakarta, into stuffy taxis or a train that will not stop, alive or dead, among the stories of travellers, tourists and migrants.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

492 pages in the original

Genres

Migration, Speculative (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States, Mexico, Netherlands, Indonesia

First published

2017 by Gramedia Pustaka Utama

ISBN

9786020377728 (original)

9781787301177 (Harvill Secker, United Kingdom)