1950s Rome
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Alba de cespedes
All Our Yesterdays
Ann Goldstein
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books about domestic routine and dissatisfaction
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classic Italian feminist literature
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Days of Abandonment
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domestic discontent fiction
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Elena Ferrante
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Family Lexicon
Feminine mystique
feminist classic fiction
feminist literature postwar Rome
Forbidden Notebook review
gender roles fiction
intimate stories of personal transformation
Italian classic fiction
Italian literary gems
Italian literature classics
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri foreword
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marriage fiction
Miu Miu
Mrs Caliban Rachel Ingalls
Natalia Ginzburg
novels about identity and self-discovery
novels about secret diaries
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postwar Italian fiction
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rediscovered classic
rediscovered Italian novels
softlaunch
subversive feminist fiction
Valeria Cossati diary novel
women's awakening fiction
women's voices in Italian literature
women’s awakening fiction
women’s voices in Italian literature
Product details
- ISBN 9781782278221
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 07 Mar 2024
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Out running an errand, Valeria Cossati gives in to a sudden impulse - she buys a shiny black notebook. She starts keeping a diary in secret, recording her concerns about her daughter, the constant churn of the domestic routine and her fears that her husband will discover her new habit. With each entry Valeria plunges deeper into her interior life, uncovering profound dissatisfaction and restlessness. As she finds her own voice, the roles that have come to define her-as wife, as mother, as daughter-begin to break apart.
Forbidden Notebook is a rediscovered jewel of Italian literature, published here in a new translation by the celebrated Ann Goldstein and with a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri. A captivating feminist classic, it is an intimate, haunting story of domestic discontent in postwar Rome, and of one woman's awakening to her true thoughts and desires.
Alba de Céspedes (1911-97) was a bestselling Italian-Cuban novelist, poet and screenwriter. The granddaughter of the first President of Cuba, de Céspedes was raised in Rome. Married at 15 and a mother by 16, she began her writing career after her divorce at the age of 20. She worked as a journalist throughout the 1930s while also taking an active part in the Italian partisan struggle, and was twice jailed for her anti-fascist activities. After the fall of fascism, she founded the literary journal Mercurio and went on to become one of Italy's most successful and most widely translated authors. Her Side of the Story is also available from Pushkin Press.
