{"product_id":"9798893380583","title":"We Were Forbidden","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/wanderingraccoonbooks.com\/products\/9781945492600\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Who Have Never Known Men\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecomes a startling trio of novellas - translated into English for the first time - each plumbing the depths of that vital human instinct: defiance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the wake of some unfathomable war, a woman wanders the forest. She and her fellow survivors are forbidden from leaving its boundaries or pausing in their eternal march through its strange depths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAttending a rigid French school in 1940s Casablanca, a teenage girl is barred from ever questioning the dogma she is taught to believe - her punishment for doing so will be as swift as it is shocking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLocked in a loveless marriage in the Belgian bourgeoisie, a young woman satisfies her husband's desires, twice weekly, as required. She has not yet thought to pursue her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese novellas - the first works by Jacqueline Harpman to arrive in English in decades - reveal her incredible stylistic range and demonstrate once more her penetrating psychological insight. Here we find the origins of a singular, relentless voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTranslated from the original French by Ros Schwartz.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harpman, Jacqueline","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48700029927678,"sku":"9798893380583","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0556\/1532\/4335\/files\/We_Were_Forbidden.png?v=1786331793","url":"https:\/\/wanderingraccoonbooks.com\/products\/9798893380583","provider":"Wandering Raccoon Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}