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Fever
- Author
- Jonathan Bazzi
- Narrator
- Vikas Adam
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 27 December 2022
- Run Time
- 11 hours 23 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Jonathan is thirty-one-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 his doctor suggests an HIV test, and 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 listener 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 Edouard 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.
Critics Review
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“I couldn’t put it down.”
Ronnie Scott, author of The Adversary
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“I read it in a single sitting.”
Jennifer Down, author of Bodies of Light
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“Jagged and tender, forthright and sly…[Fever] tells us real things, in a rich voice, with force and passion and insight.”
Ronnie Scott, author of The Adversary
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Details
- Author
- Jonathan Bazzi
- Narrator
- Vikas Adam
- Duration
- 11 hours 23 minutes
- Release Date
- 27 December 2022
- ISBN
- 9798212235686
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Memoirs, Biography: science, technology and medicine, Social and cultural history
Synopsis
Jonathan is thirty-one-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 his doctor suggests an HIV test, and 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 listener 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 Edouard 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.
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