{"product_id":"her-side-of-the-story-from-the-author-of-forbidden-notebook-hardcover","title":"Her Side of the Story: From the Author of Forbidden Notebook - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlba de C駸pedes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJill Foulston\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eElena Ferrante\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A courageous novel, beautifully imagined and written.\" \u003cbr\u003e--Elena Lappin, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"De Cespedes' work has lost none of its subversive force\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e* \"De C駸pedes's melancholy testament to a hidden life feels timeless and vital.\"\u003cbr\u003e --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (Starred Review) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eForbidden Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e, Alba de C駸pedes, a richly told novel she called \"the story of a great love and of a crime.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlessandra 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 neighboring farmer, she is sent back to Rome to tend to her ailing father. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Rome, Alessandra meets Francesco, a charismatic anti-fascist professor, who ostensibly admires and supports her sense of independence and justice. But she soon comes to recognize that even as she respects Francesco and is keen to participate in his struggle to reclaim their country from fascism, this respect is unrequited, and that her own beloved husband is ensnared by patriarchal conventions when it comes to their relationship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these pages, De C駸pedes delivers a breathtakingly accurate and timeless portrayal of the complexity of the female condition against the dramatic backdrop of WWII and the partisan uprising in Italy.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlba de C駸pedes (1911-1997) was a bestselling Italian-Cuban feminist writer greatly influenced by the cultural developments that lead to and resulted from World War II. In 1935, she was jailed for her anti-fascist activities in Italy. Two of her novels were also banned--\u003ci\u003eNessuno Torna Indietro\u003c\/i\u003e (1938) and \u003ci\u003eLa Fuga\u003c\/i\u003e (1940). In 1943, she was again imprisoned for her assistance with Radio Partigiana in Bari, where she was a resistance radio personality known as Clorinda. After the war, she moved to Paris, where she lived until her death in 1997. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTRANSLATOR BIO: \u003c\/b\u003e Jill Foulston is the translator of novels by Erri de Luca, Augusto de Angelis, and Piero Chiara.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 512\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 9.2 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 14, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764479164704,"sku":"9781662601439","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/10396cbb9fed51c258861c76ad296776.webp?v=1780249575","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/her-side-of-the-story-from-the-author-of-forbidden-notebook-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}