Minor Bodies

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I killed my love one evening in late December, there among the shop windows and passers-by, because I didn't know how to keep it alive, how to keep loving the same person long term, over time. No one taught me how, no one teaches us how. Jonathan is twenty years old, gay, and full of life. He's set out to escape the insignificance of his suburban home, to give himself instead and forever to the real city, Milan, where he hopes also to find love. But when Jonathan finds Marius - finds love in all its messy, complicated, sexy reality - it is not enough. He has escaped the place and people of his childhood, but can he escape the man raised by those people and in that place, the man he has grown up to be Praise for Fever- 'Jagged and tender, forthright and sly, this book felt so committed to its fierce, wise vision of the joys and terrors of having a body and living a life. It tells us real things, in a rich voice, with force and passion and insight. I couldn't put it down.' -Ronnie Scott, author of The Adversary 'Bazzi captures the longing, the wounds, and the joys of growing up queer and working class in 1980s Milan - and what it means to recalibrate your world amid the aftershocks of a life-changing diagnosis. I read it in a single sitting.' -Jennifer Down, author of Bodies of Light 'I couldn't put it down. Jonathan Bazzi's writing is immensely powerful.' -Tomasz Jedrowski, author of Swimming in the Dark

Author Bio

Jonathan Bazzi (Author) Jonathan Bazzi was born in Milan in 1985. They have written for various newspapers and magazines, including Gay.it, Vice, and The Vision. Their first novel, Fever, was hailed as a significant addition to queer literature and won the Sila, Premio Opera Prima, Edoardo Kihlgren, and Bagutta literary prizes. Alice Whitmore (Translator) Alice Whitmore is a writer and literary translator living on Eastern Maar country. Her translation of Mariana Dim pulos's Imminence was awarded the 2021 NSW Premier's Translation Prize. She is the translations editor at Cordite Poetry Review and an associate editor at Giramondo.