Blue Hunger Viola Di Grado Jamie Richards by Viola Di Grado, Jamie Richards 9781635579499, 163557949X, B0B7111ZBH instant download after payment.

From one of Italy's most electrifying voices, a fearless story of queer love and obsession - an electrifying descent from loneliness and grief into obsessive, all-consuming love - 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

When Xu bites Ruben, when she has her in her teeth, naked and bad on top of her, everything is good. In their skyscraper apartment, overlooking Shanghai’s blue-tinged, pulsating nightlife, they swallow the little yellow pills that will make all things dangerous feel safe. 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 is a devastating study of the ways in which grief renders everything, even the self, foreign. A gorgeous grotesquerie of lust and despair backdropped by the writhing rhythms of Shanghai."  -  Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch

Blue Hunger asks how we create our identities and how we escape them; it is a fever dream of a novel, propulsive and uncanny, that demolishes all taboos.