Khi Nao Vi - The Italy Letters - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: The Italy Letters is a slim powerful shot of literary fantasia from one of America's best - kept secrets. Long a cult favourite 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 scabby 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. The story touches obliquely but powerfully on the immigrant experience Lgbtqi a identity social class in the academy writing betrayal sex and homesickness. The narrator is in the process of caring for her declining mother who is both deteriorating in health but remains imperious - not perhaps an uncommon dynamic and one that is sketched with great compassion humour and yes exasperation. The result is an authentically distinctive piece of writing from an underrated writer on the cusp.
Title: The Italy Letters
Author(s): Khi Nao Vi
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Barcode: 9781685891305
Pages: 176 Pages
Publication Date: 8/13/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction