{"product_id":"9781914484278","title":"Blue Hunger","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Viola Di Grado\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eChina\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 9 March 2023 by Scribe Publications in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 224 pages\u003cbr\u003e210 x 137 x 19mm | 248g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn Irish Times Book of the YearAn electrifying descent from loneliness and grief into obsessive, all-consuming love, by an Italian literary star.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlue 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Viola Di Grado","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56261128913221,"sku":"9781914484278","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9781914484278.jpg?v=1763037584","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9781914484278","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}