The Forbidden Notebook: A Novel by Alba De Céspedes

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620058 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Forbidden Notebook: A Novel Author: Alba De Céspedes Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: This is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cuban feminist writer Alba de Céspedes, whose work inspired contemporary 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 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’ façade of middle-class respectability gradually comes to light, tearing the family’s fragile fabric apart. An exquisitely crafted portrayal of domestic life, The Forbidden Notebook recognizes the universality of human aspirations.