We were forbidden / Jacqueline Harpman ; translated from the French by Ros Schwartz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harpman, Jacqueline, author.

Contributor:

Schwartz, Ros, translator.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections. English (2026)

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Self-realization in women--Fiction.

Self-realization in women.

Conformity--Fiction.

Conformity.

French fiction--Translations into English.

French fiction.

Genre:

Psychological fiction.

novellas.

Science fiction.

Historical fiction.

Novellas.

Physical Description:

90 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : Transit Books, [2026]

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

From the bestselling author of I Who Have Never Known Men comes a startling trio of novellas--translated into English for the first time--each plumbing the depths of that vital human instinct: defiance.In 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.Attending 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.Locked 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.These 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.

Contents:

The Ardennes forest

The outcast

The broom closet.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.

Contains:

Ardennes Forest.

Outcast.

Broom Closet.

ISBN:

9798893380583

OCLC:

1541916864