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“A courageous novel, beautifully imagined and written.” —Elena Lappin, The Washington Post "De Cespedes' work has lost none of its subversive force” —The New York Times Book Review * "De Céspedes’s melancholy testament to a hidden life feels timeless and vital." — Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) From the author of Forbidden Notebook , Alba de Céspedes, a richly told novel she called “the story of a great love and of a crime.” As she looks back on her life, Alessandra Corteggiani recalls her youth during the rise of fascism in Italy, the resistance, and the fall of Mussolini, the lives of the women in her family and her working-class neighborhood, rigorously committed to telling “her side of the story.” Alessandra witnesses her mother, an aspiring concert pianist, suffer from the inability to escape her oppressive marriage. Later, she is sent away to live with her father's relatives in the country, in the hope she’ll finally learn to submit herself to the patriarchal system and authority. But at the farm, Alessandra grows increasingly rebellious, conscious of the unjust treatment of generations of hardworking women in her family. When she refuses the marriage proposal from a n

Author

Alba de Céspedes; Jill Foulston; Elena Ferrante

Publisher

Astra Publishing House

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781662601446