How Will I Call You Author: [Italy] Silvia Ferreri Translator: Chen Ying/Xu Wenchang Publisher: Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House

"You punish me because it's my fault that you were born a woman." VS "I am more manly than those men you see, because they are men by nature and fate. But I will become a man at all costs, even if it means wearing my nails and breaking my teeth."

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# Italian version of "The Danish Girl", shortlisted for the Strega Prize.

# It was recommended by China Women's News, Beijing Youth Daily, Sanlian Zhongdu and other publications, and was listed in the top ten fiction books of 2021 by Jingbao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Book Review.

# Dedicated to those who fight against creation with flesh and blood and live true to themselves in a misplaced life, and also dedicated to the mother who is always "present" - where God cannot go, mother will accompany you.

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This story is full of torture and pain, anger and exhaustion, but the most touching thing is the unforgettable love. —— Strega Award recommendation

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Contents:

18-year-old Eva lies on an operating table in a Serbian hospital, unconscious due to anesthesia.

Doctors used green markers to draw lines on her body, marking where the scalpel would go - breasts, uterus, ovaries and vagina...

If the operation goes smoothly, there will be no Eva in the world anymore, and Alessandro will have a new life.

In the cold corridor, the mother waited motionlessly while her daughter, 18-year-old Eva, lay in the operating room just across the wall, facing her last moments as a girl, a woman, and a female.

If the operation goes smoothly, Eva will no longer exist in the world, and Alessandro will have a new life.

The mother is saving her daughter, but also losing her daughter.

Was it wrong to let her be born a woman from the beginning?

Author: Silvia Ferreri

An emerging Italian writer and journalist, this book is her representative work when she first entered the literary world. It caused a huge sensation once it was published and was shortlisted for the 2018 Italian Strega Prize.

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Translator

Chen Ying: PhD in Italian linguistics, currently an associate professor at the French and Italian Department of Sichuan International Studies University. His translations include "The Neapolitan Quartet", "Fragments", "Miniature World", "Shoelaces", "The Angry Castle", "A Man Disappears from the World", "Persecution", "Fist", "Venice is a Fish", etc.

Xu Wenchang: Master’s student majoring in Italian at Sichuan International Studies University