1930s Rome novel
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anti fascist resistance story
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classic love story
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fascist Italy
feminist classic
feminist historical fiction
feminist Italian classic
feminist literary masterpiece
feminist political novel
Forbidden Notebook
Italian classics
Italian literary rediscovery
Italian resistance novel
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Natalia Ginzburg
Neapolitan novels
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passionate forbidden love story
patriarchal oppression themes
Penelope Mortimer
political and emotional awakening
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Rachel Cusk
rediscovered classic
Rome historical fiction
Sheila Heti
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subversive classic novel
underground resistance narrative
wartime rebellion novel
woman defying tradition
women's autonomy and freedom
women's independence fiction
World War II Italy
Product details
- ISBN 9781782277583
- Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 07 Mar 2024
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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A captivating feminist classic about a woman's struggle for independence in fascist Italy, from the author of Forbidden Notebook - with an afterword by Elena Ferrante
Alessandra has always wanted more than life offered her. Growing up in a crowded apartment block in 1930s Rome, she watches as her mother's dreams of becoming a concert pianist are stifled by an unsatisfying marriage. When her father's traditional family try to make Alessandra marry at a young age, she rebels against the future they imagine for her.
Soon she falls passionately in love with Francesco, an anti-fascist professor, and a new world seems to open up. Working for the underground resistance, she tastes the independence that she has yearned for. But what will it take for her to break free from society's expectations, and live on her own terms?
Drawing on Alba de Céspedes's own experiences in Italy's wartime uprising, Her Side of the Story is a feminist chronicle of fierce and unforgettable power.
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. Forbidden Notebook is also available from Pushkin Press.
