Fever

Fever is a multi-award-winning Italian debut from a bold and original new voice in contemporary queer literature. It follows Jonathan, who is 31 years old and HIV-positive, as he deals with his diagnosis and explores his past in the suburbs of Milan. The book is a searing examination of class, poverty, prejudice, and opportunity in modern Europe.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 13 October 2022
Publisher: Scribe Publications

A multi-award-winning Italian debut, from a bold and original 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 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 Édouard 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.

Weight: 354g
Dimension: 135 x 209 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781913348830