Romeo & Seahorse
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Romeo has Hepatitis again. It's no surprise, and when you haven't slept for days staying awake is easy. And anyway, there's the promise of more drugs, more sex. Leaving his boyfriend at home he heads out for hookups, getting abjectly high and pushing his body to grotesque extremes in an urgent but dissociated quest for romance. What follows is a delirious trip through squalid rooms, hospital wards, and nighttime parks, broken by memories of first loves, European travels, and meditations on what it means to be a Romeo. With chaotic chemsex escapades and musings on romantic love, art and belonging, Romeo & Seahorse takes us to places not often explored in fiction. Written in a relentless, frenzied first-person narrative with moments of mind-bending wisdom and poignancy, this is a one-of-a-kind novel about addiction, desire, belonging, and want that's destined to become a queer classic.
Nikolaj Tange Lange is a Berlin-based writer, musician and adult performer. He's the author of four novels in Danish, most of which deal with Berlin subcultures; from ketamine-fuelled techno romance in 'Livet er en fest og sa dor man' (Life Is a Party and Then You Die) to nazi accusations on the left in 'Antityskland' ('Anti-Germany'). Originally from Denmark, Tange Lange started his artistic career in the noughties in the Copenhagen trash drag collective 'dunst'. He continued as singer and songwriter in his NSFW electro-punk project Nuclear Family. As a porn performer, he has made films with directors like Courtney Trouble, Pigboy, and Axel Abysse. His latest novel Romeo & Seahorse is an exploration of romantic love, chemsex, and what the two have in common. The translation is done by Tange Lange himself, and it is his English language debut.