Viola Di Grado Bücher

Eine junge Frau auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Schönheit der Welt und den richtigen Klamotten ... Camelia ist 19 und findet ihr Dasein schlicht zum Kotzen. Sie lebt in England, in Leeds, in einer so heruntergekommenen Straße, die leicht als Beweis dafür angeführt werden kann, dass es Gott tatsächlich nicht gibt. Doch dann lernt sie eines Tages Wen kennen. Camelia ist fasziniert, denn der junge Chinese behauptet, die verschnittenen Klamotten, die Camelia seit geraumer Zeit aus einem Container zieht, stammen aus seiner Werkstatt. Wen bringt Camelia Chinesisch bei, sie verliebt sich in seinen Bruder Jimmy. Und plötzlich kommt der Tag, an dem sie beschließt, sich ihr verlorenes Leben zurückzuholen …

In »Blauer Hunger« begibt sich eine junge Frau nach dem Tod ihres Zwillingsbruders von Rom nach Shanghai, um als Italienischlehrerin zu arbeiten. Dort trifft sie die mysteriöse Xu, und gemeinsam erkunden sie die dunklen Seiten der Stadt sowie eine intensive Dimension des erotischen Rituals.

Finalist for the 2016 PEN Literary Award for Translation In this courageous, inventive, and intelligent novel, Viola di Grado tells the story of a suicide and what follows. She has given voice to an astonishing vision of life after life, portraying the awful longing and sense of loss that plague the dead, together with the solitude provoked by the impossibility of communicating. The afterlife itself is seen as a dark, seething place where one is preyed upon by the cruel and unrelenting elements. Hollow Heart will frighten as it provokes, enlighten as it causes concern. If ever there were a novel that follows Kafka's prescription for a book to be a frozen axe for the sea within us, it is Hollow Heart.

An electrifying descent from loneliness and grief into obsessive, all-consuming love, by an Italian literary star. '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 Hungerasks 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.

Chi sono le donne italiane di oggi? Ad ascoltare la TV e a leggere i giornali, domina l'immagine della "donna-corpo": escort, modelle prestate alla politica, donne belle a ogni costo che usano la propria avvenenza come merce di scambio. Ma a guardarsi attorno, nella realtà quotidiana, queste donne sono la minoranza. Esiste, e va per la maggiore, un altro modello di donna, la "donna normale". Come le protagonìste dei racconti compresi in questa antologia, scritti da autrici diversissìme per età, formazione, provenienza geografica, ma unite da un unico obiettivo: offrire un'istantanea dai toni molteplici comici, drammatici, ironici, teneri... - della condizione femminile nell'Italia del Duemila. Storie straordinariamente autentiche nelle quali ogni donna non potrà non riconoscersi.