The Italy Letters
by Vi Khi Nao
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Pub Date Aug 13 2024 | Archive Date Sep 23 2024
Melville House Publishing | Melville House
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Description
A mesmerizing epistolary tale of a sensual queer love affair set against the backdrop of Las Vegas' gritty underbelly.
The Italy Letters is a slim, powerful shot of literary fantasia from one of America’s best-kept secrets. Long an underground favorite, visionary writer Vi Khi Nao weaves an unforgettable and highly distinctive story of a love affair suffused with longing, erotic passion, and heartbreak—all while painting a picture of the gritty underside of Las Vegas.
This beautiful and mesmerizing novel by a queer Vietnamese American writer is a brilliant and unclassifiable work of fiction that takes the form of a series of letters written by the unnamed narrator to her lover in Italy … part of a stream-of-consciousness narrative that is by turns poignant, bawdy, funny, and disturbing—and often beautifully poetic.
Along the way, the story touches on the immigrant experience, LGBTQIA identity, social class, writing, betrayal, sex, and homesickness. The result is an authentically distinctive piece of writing from a writer on the cusp of wide acclaim.
Advance Praise
A Ms Magazine The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2024
A New York Magazine's Vulture Books We Can't Wait to Read This Summer
A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of Summer 2024
"Vi Khi Nao’s work crosses mediums — poetry, film, and visual art, to name a few — and her intensely lyrical latest novel has a similar range, putting the erotic side by side with political and personal history." — New York Magazine's Vulture
"Queer, sensual, 'literary fantasia.'" — Ms Magazine
"For years, Vi Khi Nao has been one of the most interesting and bewitching writers of an English sentence. With this book she expresses all the loneliness and longing and absurdity of what it's been like to live out this past decade in America, in sentences you want to lift off the page, put in your mouth, and swallow down whole." — Madeleine Watts, author of The Inland Sea
PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS BOOKS:
"Vi Khi Nao's fictional language is full of magical slippages ... an esoteric sadness seeps up through surface deadpan and pizzazz." — Jonathan Lethem
"An unstoppable genius." — Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted
"Prose as sharp and strange as a buried blade." — Alex McElroy, author of The Atmospherians
"Vi Khi Nao [creates] universe at once both recognizable and fantastical, poetical and political." — Adriana E. Ramírez, author of Dead Boys
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781685891305 |
| PRICE | $18.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 192 |
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