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Availability:In StockContributor:Jonathan Bazzi, Alice Whitmore (Translator)Publish date:2022-06-21Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribe UsISBN-13:9781950354962ISBN-10:1950354962UPC:9781950354962Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:BiographicalSize:8.10 x 5.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SC14FRWH7E

A multi-award winning Italian debut, from a bold new voice in contemporary queer literature.

Jonathan is 31 years old, living in Milan with his boyfriend of three years and their two Devon Rex cats when, on a day like any other, he gets a fever. But unlike most, this fever doesn't go away; it's constant, low-level, and exhausting. After spending weeks Googling his symptoms and documenting his illness, he finally sees a doctor. A series of blood tests, anxious visits to hospitals, and repeated misdiagnoses ensue, until his doctor suggests an HIV test, and the truth is finally revealed: Jonathan is HIV-positive.

As Jonathan comes to terms with what this diagnosis will mean for him, his future, and his relationships, he also takes the reader back in time, in search of his history, to the suburbs where he grew up, and from which he feels he has escaped: Rozzano, the ghetto of Milan, and of Italy's north. In the vein of Edouard Louis and Virginie Despentes, Fever is at once a deeply personal story and a searing examination of class, poverty, prejudice, and opportunity in modern Europe.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribe UsISBN-13:9781950354962ISBN-10:1950354962UPC:9781950354962Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:BiographicalSize:8.10 x 5.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SC14FRWH7E
Bazzi, Jonathan: -

Jonathan Bazzi (they/them) was born in Milan in 1985. They grew up in Rozzano, on the extreme southern outskirts of the city. They studied philosophy and graduated with a thesis on symbolic theology in the work of Edith Stein. Jonathan has collaborated with various newspapers and magazines, including Gay.it, Vice, The Vision, and Il Fatto.it. Fever is their first novel.

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