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provocative novel that tells a female story of love, rebellion, and power that is at times too surreal to the reader, but at others, it’s extremely close to our daily paths. Ignazia lives a seemingly normal life in Milan, working as an architect; however, in her spare time she delves into a world of pain in violence, seducing and kidnapping macho men in order to break the clichés and discrimination that exist in everyone’s mind about women in pain.

Translated from Italian by Jeanne Bonner.

TE14-08 BARBARA SERDAKOWSKI Poems (multilingual)

Barbara Serdakowski (born in Gryfino, Poland, 1964) moved to Italy in 1996 after finishing her education at Concordia University of Montreal. Beyond being included in several Italian and international anthologies, she has published three poetic collections, Senza verbo , Così nuda , and La verticalità di esistere linearmente , as well as Katerina e la sua guerra , a novel. Throughout her life, Serdakowski has spent time in Poland, Morocco, Canada and Italy. Being immersed in diverse linguistic and culture places have evidently influenced her writing in these selected poems. She works a self-translated verse, weaving English with

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