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.
| ISBN: | 9781914484278 |
| Publication date: | 9th March 2023 |
| Author: | Viola Di Grado |
| Publisher: | Scribe UK an imprint of Scribe Publications Pty Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 244 pages |
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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