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Blue hunger, a novel, Viola Di Grado ; translated by Jamie Richards

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Blue hunger

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Viola Di Grado ; translated by Jamie Richards

a novel

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 born 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 and extreme dimension where biting, swallowing, and taking each other in are part of the erotic ritual