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02837aam a22003978i 4500 001 047BB0DED2B111ED872B743748ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230404012110 008 220708s2023 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2022032811 020 $a 1641294248 020 $a 9781641294249 040 $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ita 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PQ4863.U75 $b C8713 2023 082 00 $a 853/.914 $2 23/eng/20220708 100 1 $a Cutrufelli, Maria Rosa, $e author. 240 10 $a Canto al deserto. $l English. 245 10 $a Tina, mafia soldier / $c Maria Rosa Cutrufelli ; translated from the Italian by Robin Pickering-Iazzi. 263 $a 2303. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Soho Crime, $c 2023. 300 $a 336 pages ; $a 336 pages ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a "In the 1980s, a teenage girl terrorizes the Sicilian town of Gela. Tina's father was in Cosa Nostra and was brutally shot dead in front of her when she was just eight; after that, she made it her mission in life to join the mafia, although women are traditionally not allowed in. Nicknamed 'a masculidda, or "the tomboy," Tina is notorious through Gela for her recklessness, cruelty, and complete disregard for societal expectations. When a news article is published about Tina's latest crimes, an unnamed teacher living in Rome feels compelled to write a novel about her-even though it means returning to her home island of Sicily to gather material. She and Tina circle around each other in a hypnotic, dangerous dance of obsession and violence until their first, and last, explosive meeting. In this ruminative, literary exploration of what it means to live in the mafia's dark shadow, the narrator's observations and interactions are counterposed against recollections of Tina's life as she grows up from a child into a soldier of the mafia, shedding gender constraints along the way. Based closely on Maria Rosa Cutrufelli's experiences as a Sicilian and on the true case of a teenage girl who became a mafia soldier, Song to the Desert is a powerful work of autofiction whose original Italian publication was a watershed moment for Italian crime fiction, as it shed a light on a corner of mafia literature that had previously gone unexplored: the role of women in the mafia, and the impact that the mafia has on women and girls"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Mafia $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Sicily (Italy) $v Fiction. 655 0 $a Feminist fiction. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft. 700 1 $a Pickering-Iazzi, Robin, $e translator. 941 $a 5 952 $l NYPE343 $d 20231121010756.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117032850.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20230603011454.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20230405010217.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230404020029.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=047BB0DED2B111ED872B743748ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search