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Her Side of the Story
Alba de Céspedes
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R645
R532
Discovery Miles 5 320
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Looking back over her life, Alessandra Corteggiani recalls her
youth during the rise of fascism in 1930s Rome. A sensitive child,
she was always alert to the loneliness and dissatisfaction of her
mother and the other women in their crowded apartment block.
Observing how their lives were weighed down by housework and the
longing for romance, she became determined to seek another future
for herself. This conviction will lead her to rebel against the
expectations of her family, rail against the unjust treatment of
women and seek to build a life with an anti-fascist professor. As
her independence grows, so too does resistance against it - even
from those closest to her. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the
partisan struggle in the Second World War, Her Side of the Story is
a profound, devastating story of one woman's determination to carve
her own path.
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Forbidden Notebook
Alba de Céspedes; Translated by Ann Goldstein
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R318
R261
Discovery Miles 2 610
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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.
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