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We Were Forbidden
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Publisher Price: $18.95
Publisher: Transit Books
Published: Jul 7 2026
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
For readers who first met Harpman via her melancholic digital afterlife, We Were Forbidden will arrive as a revelation.--Katy Waldman, The New Yorker
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.
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