Blue Hunger

di Viola Di Grado (Autore)

Jamie Richards (Traduttore)

Scribe Publications, 2023

An Irish Times Book of the Year An electrifying descent from loneliness and grief into obsessive, all-consuming love, by an Italian literary star. ‘When Xu bites me, when she has me in her teeth, naked and bad on top of me, everything is good.’ In a skyscraper apartment overlooking Shanghai’s blue-tinged, pulsating nightlife and filled with rotting food, two women swallow little yellow pills that will make all things dangerous feel safe. They’re both running from a turbulent past. In abandoned factories and dilapidated slaughterhouses, Xu pushes Ruben to extremes of pleasure and pain that she has never experienced before, to a place where language breaks down and passion becomes consumption. Blue Hunger asks how we create our identities and how we escape them; it is a fever-dream of a novel, visionary and uncanny, that demolishes all taboos and wisely explores, in a wildly imaginative language, the twisted peaks of loss and desire.

• Autore: Viola Di Grado
• Traduttore: Jamie Richards
• Editore: Scribe Publications
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 224 p.
• Dimensioni: 210 x 135 mm
• EAN: 9781914484278

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