| Description |
259 pages ; 24 cm |
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Fiction |
| Original Version |
Originally published: Italy : Mondadori, 1952 in Italian as Quaderno proibito. |
| Note |
"Foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri" --front cover |
| Summary |
"Valeria Cossati never suspected how unhappy she had become with the shabby gentility of her bourgeois life—until she begins to jot down her thoughts and feelings in a little black book she keeps hidden in a closet. This new secret activity leads her to scrutinize herself and her life more closely, and she soon realizes that her individuality is being stifled by her devotion and sense of duty toward her husband, daughter, and son. As the conflicts between parents and children, husband and wife, and friends and lovers intensify, what goes on behind the Cossatis’ facade of middle-class respectability gradually comes to light, tearing the family’s fragile fabric apart." --publisher's website |
| Subject |
Housewives -- Psychology -- Fiction.
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Discontent -- Fiction.
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Individuality -- Fiction.
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Diaries -- Fiction.
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Middle class -- Italy -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Rome (Italy) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Italy -- History -- 1945- -- Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Goldstein, Ann, 1949- translator.
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Lahiri, Jhumpa, writer of foreword.
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Translation of work: De Céspedes, Alba, 1911-1997.
Quaderno proibito. English.
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| ISBN |
9781662601392 |
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1662601395 |
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