hello, world?

Name: hello, world?
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Anna Poletti

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Miscellaneous
01 March 2026

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Australian Fiction

Abandoned by their Dutch partner after giving up their home and their job to follow him to the Netherlands, Seasonal finds themself single in a strange place for the first time in a decade. Still adjusting to life outside Australia, they turn to the internet to find a new anchor.

Dipping into the rabbit hole of digital eroticism, Seasonal meets Lszl, a male sub who volleys back their cerebral sexts and is seeking a dominant guide. His dating-app profile thinly veils his desire to be annihilated. It's a desire that Seasonal senses they can fulfil. But to do it, Seasonal must forget the hard earned ways of keeping themself safe they developed in the milieu of violence and sexual threat that marked their upbringing in working-class, small-town Australia. At home, men were usually a threat. What if the roles were reversed?

Seasonal and Lszl embark on an experiment in remaking intimacy outside the Republic of Gender. But as it continues, the two realise they are staging separate confrontations with domination: Seasonal finds they must confront what it has meant to be raised as woman in Australia, while Lszl stages his own confrontation with his decision to leave Viktor Orbn's Hungary. As the two improvise a theatre of domination in search of freedom, the energies of their sexuality stalk this collaboration, threatening to give them exactly what they bargained or begged for.

A reverse novel of education, where two people try to unlearn everything they think they know about intimacy, Anna Poletti's hello, world? dares to fully face the violence, beauty, and uncharted territories of human sexuality.

By: Anna Poletti
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 136mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9781923099807
ISBN 10: 1923099809
Pages: 370
Publication Date: 01 March 2026
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

For over twenty years, Anna Poletti has researched how media shapes the meaning we attach to lived experience. Her recent books include Stories of the Self: Life Writing after the Book (2020) and the Eisner Awardnominated collection Graphic Medicine (coedited with Erin La Cour, 2022).