{"product_id":"9781922585332","title":"Blue Hunger","description":"Author: Grado, Viola Di \u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781922585332 \u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Scribe Publications \u003cbr\u003eYear First Published: 2023 \u003cbr\u003ePages: 224 \u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 208mm x 136mm x 17mm \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn electrifying descent from loneliness and grief into obsessive, all-consuming love, by an Italian literary star.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'When Xu bites me, when she has me in her teeth, naked and bad on top of me, everything is good.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlue Hunger\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Viola Di Grado is, most importantly, a powerful and original writer; the fact that she also writes, movingly and with complexity, about members of the LGBT population, renders her work all the more singular.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Michael Cunningham, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hours\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'To read \u003ci\u003eBlue Hunger\u003c\/i\u003e is to enter a dreamlike state, guided by irresistible, evocative writing, immaculate details, and vivid emotions dripping with desire. Viola Di Grado offers us a brilliant, highly immersive story about the need to consume and be consumed, love, messiness, and the power of language. \u003ci\u003eBlue Hunger\u003c\/i\u003e is a wholly compelling piece of art, and Viola Di Grado is a genius.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Jami Attenberg, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Middlesteins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eBlue Hunger\u003c\/i\u003e is a breezy yet dizzying fever-dream of a read. The narrator's voice is deceptively quiet. The book feels like it has a flame lighting it from underneath. It moves with a steady, compact agility, like a ship gesturing towards a mid-sea battle ... The final scene is a spectacular feat, managing to be both unexpected, and exquisitely tender.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Jessie Tu, \u003ci\u003eThe Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45667912908958,"sku":"UBD-9781922585332","price":27.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781922585332.jpg?v=1751332490","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781922585332","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}