Forbidden Notebook

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.

Product details

• Authors: Alba de Cespedes, Alba De Cespedes, Alba De Céspedes
• Assisted by: Jhumpa Lahiri (Introduction), Ann Goldstein (Translation), Goldstein Ann (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.03.2024
• EAN: 9781782278221
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-822-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Pushkin Press Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general