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    Forbidden Notebook
    Forbidden Notebook
    Forbidden Notebook
    Audiobook (abridged)10 hours

    Forbidden Notebook

    Written by Alba de Céspedes and Jhumpa Lahiri

    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell

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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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPushkin Press
    Release dateMar 2, 2023
    ISBN9781805330684
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    Alba de Céspedes

    Alba de Céspedes (1911–1997) was a bestselling Italian-Cuban feminist writer greatly influenced by the cultural developments that lead to and resulted from World War II. Between 1935 and the end of the war, she was jailed for her anti-fascist activities, two of her novels were banned, and she was 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.

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