{"product_id":"minor-bodies-9781957363769","title":"Minor Bodies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMinor is the desiring body that runs, rises, gravitates towards larger, brighter, more dazzling bodies, that bestows on other bodies the status of suns and planets, fires to be orbited, the reason for everything. There is no center of the universe except the one we invent for ourselves.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut when Jonathan finds love in all its messy, complicated, sexy reality, he realizes it's 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?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe much-anticipated second book by Jonathan Bazzi, the Italian author of the multi-award winning \u003cem\u003eFever\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMinor Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e is a striking autobiographical novel, a delicious, captivating portrait of love and infatuation: \"A self-inflicted lightning bolt, only heavy, joyless -- more like a fist, or a hammer.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Bazzi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribe Us\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.10w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781957363769\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBazzi, Jonathan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJonathan Bazzi was born in Milan in 1985. They have written for various newspapers and magazines, including \u003cem\u003eGay.it\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVice\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Vision\u003c\/em\u003e. Their first novel, \u003cem\u003eFever\u003c\/em\u003e, was hailed as a significant addition to queer literature and won the Sila, Premio Opera Prima, Edoardo Kihlgren, and Bagutta literary prizes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhitmore, Alice:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eAlice Whitmore is a writer and literary translator living on Eastern Maar country. Her translation of Mariana Dimópulos's \u003cem\u003eImminence\u003c\/em\u003e was awarded the 2021 NSW Premier's Translation Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Jonathan Bazzi \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":49001603072157,"sku":"9781957363769","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_63f0d6a1-07cb-4879-b2e2-1e816b39ccf0.jpg?v=1791981706","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/minor-bodies-9781957363769","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}