Forbidden Notebook
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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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- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- A Note from the Translator
- Forbidden Notebook
- November 26, 1950
- December 10
- December 11
- December 15
- December 21
- December 27
- Later
- January 1, 1951
- January 3
- January 5
- January 7
- January 9
- January 10
- January 14
- Later
- January 15
- January 17
- January 18
- January 19
- January 20
- January 24
- January 25
- January 27
- January 28
- January 29
- January 30
- February 2
- February 3
- February 5
- February 6
- February 7
- February 10
- February 12
- February 14
- February 16
- February 17
- February 19
- February 21
- February 24
- February 25
- February 26
- February 27
- February 28
- March 2
- March 7
- March 9
- March 10
- March 14
- March 16
- March 18
- March 20
- March 21
- March 22
- March 26
- March 29
- March 30
- April 1
- April 2
- April 3
- April 6
- April 8
- April 10
- April 12
- April 13
- April 16
- April 17
- April 18
- April 24
- April 26
- April 27
- April 29
- April 30
- May 4
- May 5
- May 6
- May 8
- May 10
- May 12
- May 16
- May 19
- May 22
- May 24
- May 27
- Available and Coming Soon from Pushkin Press
- About the Author
- Copyright
