Forbidden Notebook by de Cespedes, Alba

Forbidden Notebook (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781662602689)

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Format: Paperback
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Forbidden Notebook by de Cespedes, Alba

Forbidden Notebook

$18.00
Forbidden Notebook by de Cespedes, Alba

Forbidden Notebook

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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"Powerful." --The New Yorker

"Brilliant." --The Wall Street Journal

"Astounding." --NPR

Now in paperback, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, New Statesmen Best Book of the Year, and Mother Jones favorite book of the year, Forbidden Notebook is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cuban feminist writer Alba de C駸pedes, whose work inspired contemporary writers like Elena Ferrante and Annie Ernaux.

In this modern translation by acclaimed Elena Ferrante translator Ann Goldstein, Forbidden Notebook centers the inner life of a dissatisfied housewife living in postwar Rome.

Valeria Cossati never suspected how unhappy she had become with the shabby gentility of her bourgeois life--until she begins to jot down her thoughts and feelings in a little black book she keeps hidden in a closet. This new secret activity leads her to scrutinize herself and her life more closely, and she soon realizes that her individuality is being stifled by her devotion and sense of duty toward her husband, daughter, and son. As the conflicts between parents and children, husband and wife, and friends and lovers intensify, what goes on behind the Cossatis' facade of middle-class respectability gradually comes to light, tearing the family's fragile fabric apart.

An exquisitely crafted portrayal of domestic life, Forbidden Notebook recognizes the universality of human aspirations.

Author: Alba de Cespedes
ISBN-10: 1662602685
ISBN-13: 9781662602689
Publisher: Astra House
Language: English
Published: 09/24/2024
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
By Alba de Cespedes
By Alba de Cespedes
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Alba de C駸pedes (1911-1997) was a bestselling Italian-Cuban feminist writer greatly influenced by the cultural developments that led to and resulted from World War II. In 1935, she was jailed for her anti-fascist activities in Italy. Two of her novels were also banned--Nessuno Torna Indietro (1938) and La Fuga (1940). In 1943, she was again imprisoned for her assistance with Radio Partigiana in Bari, where she was a Resistance radio personality known as Clorinda. After the war, she moved to Paris, where she lived until her death in 1997.

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