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.
