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Night of a Thousand Hells

Intan Paramaditha • Translated from the Indonesian by Stephen J. Epstein and Tiffany Tsao • Novel • Europa Editions paperback • October 6, 2026

It opens with the youngest of three sisters riding off on a motorbike with a bomb strapped to her chest. What follows is a feminist gothic of grief and prophecy: two surviving sisters, a grandmother whose predictions shaped the women before them, and Indonesian folklore and occult tradition running under everything like groundwater.

Mariana Enriquez calls it “an unforgiving tale of political horror and womanhood.” Read it with the lights on, and leave the cover face up on the nightstand. A finalist for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

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