Description: Forbidden Notebook by Ann Goldstein, Alba de Céspedes, Jhumpa Lahiri 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 womans awakening to her true thoughts and desires. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Alba de Cespedes (1911-97) was a bestselling Italian-Cuban novelist, poet and screenwriter. The granddaughter of the first President of Cuba, de Cespedes 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 Italys most successful and most widely translated authors. Her Side of the Story is also forthcoming from Pushkin Press. Review Electric... de Cespedess novel anticipates the candid confessionals of writers such as Deborah Levy, Sheila Heti and Rachel Cusk... Formally precise, psychologically rich, and suffused in suspicion and suspense, Forbidden Notebook is an exquisite, tormented howl - Lucy ScholesI dont think Ive read a finer unpicking of a complex mother-daughter relationship... A damning portrait emerges of the prisons on which modern family life is built. It is devastatingly effective, a tour de force - Sunday TimesReading Alba de Cespedes was, for me, like breaking into an unknown universe: social class, feelings atmosphere - Annie ErnauxIncendiary: a bomb beneath the bed that has been made for her. Turning its pages, the feeling grows that all women, metaphorically speaking, keep a little black book just as Valeria does - Rachel CookeStill speaks to womens lives today... For the reader, the discoveries of the notebook emerge as discoveries of freedom. We share Valerias pleasure and release when she manages secretly to write - Lara Feigel Details ISBN1782278222 Author Jhumpa Lahiri Pages 272 Publisher Pushkin Press Year 2024 Translator Ann Goldstein ISBN-13 9781782278221 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-03-07 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Translated from Italian AU Release Date 2024-03-07 UK Release Date 2024-03-07 DEWEY 853.914 Audience General Language English ISBN-10 1782278222 Replaces 9781782279563 Series Pushkin Press Classics Imprint Pushkin Press Classics NZ Release Date 2024-09-23 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161923831;
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