Forbidden Notebook
de Céspedes, Alba / Goldstein, Ann / Lahiri, Jhumpa
With a brilliant new translation, Astra House is relaunching Italian-Cuban feminist Alba de Céspedes's classic domestic novel Quaderno Proibito, which inspired contemporary feminist writers like Elena Ferrante.In this modern translation by acclaimed Elena Ferrante translator Ann Goldstein, The Forbidden Notebook centers the inner life of a dissatisfied housewife living in postwar Rome. Valeria Cossati never suspected how unhappy she had become...