Tales about delicate, submissive women who pretended to want love but actually wanted something darker. Dovrebbe trattare del lutto e della riscoperta di sé stessi ma tutto ciò di cui si concentra la protagonista è la ragazza cinese, antipatica e tossica. Loss: I don't think we ever find out Ruben's real name because the entire time, she takes on her twin brother's identity. In particular, the character of Xu, the mysterious, seductive stranger, doesn’t always work, and while there are moments where she’s more character than caricature, there is a hint of the glossy and exotic about her. Non c’è una parola per descrivere la condizione in cui si viene a trovare una sorella in seguito alla perdita del fratello.

Blue Hunger is irresistible, evocative, dripping with desire, and brilliantly written-Viola Di Grado is a genius. Mostly alone, she wanders the streets and adopts her brother’s name, Ruben, subsuming her own identity.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. While some readers may find the novel repetitious and repellent, it accurately depicts the state of mind of its bereaved heroine, as the city and her relationship with Xu mirror her descent into a deep depression and her gradual climb back into a version of her former life.

Viola Di Grado’s charming prose romps through chthonic worlds of nibbling insects, ammoniac seepage and shattering depression, using language that is both glib and scrumptious. Blue Hunger, the fifth novel from Italian author Viola Di Grado, follows Ruben – taking her dead brother’s name – as she navigates the cultural shift of her international escape, while still blindsided by her loss. Vila’s English-language debut swirls the erotic and the grotesque into a tart tale about the perils of sexual obsession.I thoroughly recommend Blue Hunger by Italian novelist Viola Di Grado, translated by Jamie Richards. Early in the novel, Ruben describes how as a little girl during summer, she would open the windows, turn on all the lights and outstretch her arms and legs for mosquitoes to eat her alive. This novella is a deliriously compelling look at the feeling of otherness, the ways that language and emotion shape how we view ourselves and those around us; how we will go to any lengths to feel a part of someone, something.

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. Una historia de amor, odio, frustración y solitud donde la protagonista canaliza el duelo por la muerte de su hermano hacia un amor irracional. Blue Hunger is a most vibrant novel about lust: beautifully written and full of sensuous images, Viola Di Grado's book is a powerful literary journey into food and sex and the city. Both protagonists find solace by teaching language: in Greenwell’s case, English to Bulgarian students, in Di Grado’s case, Italian to Chinese students.

Blue Hunger (translated by Jamie Richards) focuses on an unnamed young Italian woman, introducing us to her shortly after her move to Shanghai to be an Italian teacher. 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. They meet in Xu's garbage-filled apartment and in an abandoned slaughterhouse, where, during their rendezvous, Xu savagely bites her.