Name: We Were Forbidden
SKU: 64786856
Price: 507.00 TWD
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Author: Jacqueline Harpman
ISBN: 9781529984583

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jacqueline Harpman

Publisher

Vintage Classics

Collection

Brief Encounters

Year

2026

Language

English

Pages

112

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8x12.9 cm

ISBN13

9781529984583

We Were Forbidden

Jacqueline Harpman (Author) · Vintage Classics · Paperback

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Synopsis "We Were Forbidden"

From the author of I Who Have Never Known Men comes a startling new collection of three never-before-translated stories, each plumbing the depths of that most necessary human instinct: defiance. Wandering the forest in the wake of some unfathomable war, a woman and her fellow survivors are forbidden from leaving its boundaries or pausing in their march through its strange depths. As part of her rigid shcooling, a teenage girl is barred from questioning the dogma she is taught to believe – her punishment for doing so will be as disturbing as it is disproportiante. Locked in a loveless marriage, a young woman satisfies her husband’s desires, twice-weekly, as directed. She has not yet thought to pursue her own. In varying ways, and across varying worlds, each of these women are trapped. Do they have the will to escape?BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days

Jacqueline Harpman

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Jacqueline Harpman (Etterbeek, Brussels, 5 July 1929 - 24 May 2012) was a Belgian novelist and psychoanalyst of Jewish origin. During World War II, her family took refuge in Casablanca to escape Nazi persecution. After the war, they returned to Belgium, where Harpman studied French literature at the University of Brussels. She began medical studies, but abandoned them due to tuberculosis. Among her most notable works are "I Who Have Never Known Men" (2021), "Orlanda" (1996), awarded the Médicis Prize, and "The Beach at Ostend". Her novels, written in French, explore themes of identity and human existence.

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