Products specifications
Author
|
Viola Di Grado |
Pub Date
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09/03/2023 |
Binding
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Paperback / softback |
Pages
|
224 |
Country
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United Kingdom |
Dewey
|
853.92 |
GBPPrice
|
14.99 |
Availability
|
Available |
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.