Blue Hunger (Hardcover)

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Management number 231039384 Release Date 2026/06/18 List Price US$8.61 Model Number 231039384
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<b>From one of Italy’s most electrifying voices, a fearless story of queer love and obsession set against the glassy surfaces of Shanghai.</b>

From one of Italy's most electrifying voices, a fearless story of queer love and obsession set against the glassy surfaces of Shanghai.

"Blue Hunger is irresistible, evocative, dripping with desire, and brilliantly written-Viola Di Grado is a genius."-Jami Attenberg

After her twin's death, a solitary young woman leaves Rome for Shanghai, the city where her brother Ruben had long dreamed of opening a restaurant. Teaching Italian to Chinese students, she meets a mysterious girl named Xu, who is also running from a turbulent past: a violent father, an absent mother, and an extended family who wishes she'd been a boy. Xu's house is dingy and full of rotting food, like a museum of decomposing organic matter. In the gloom of abandoned textile factories and dilapidated slaughterhouses, the two discover an extreme dimension where biting, swallowing, and taking each other in are part of the erotic ritual.

Rooted in an experience of cultural limbo, Blue Hunger takes the reader on a visually stunning, taboo-demolishing journey into the depths of the psyche, from mourning to falling in lust-all in a city of potent dreams, stories, and stimulations.

Book format Hardcover
Fiction/nonfiction Fiction
Genre Literature & Fiction
Publication date March, 2023
Pages 224
Reading level General/Trade
Subgenre Literary, LGBTQ+ - Lesbian, World Literature - Italy
Edition Standard Edition
Publisher Bloomsbury USA
Original languages English
Translator Richards
Language English
Character Xu
Editor Jamie Richards
Assembled product height 8.4 in
Assembled product weight 0.79 lbs
Bisac subject heading Fiction

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