Blue Hunger
Viola Di Grado
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
3.38
· 8 ratings · Published: 31 Mar 2022
‘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.
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- contemporary 3
- horror 3
- lgbtq+ 3
- romance 3
- gothic 2
- women loving women 2
- literary fiction 2
- grief 2
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- mental illness 1
- format - reader age
- adult fiction 1
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