Roberta Mezzabarba – The Confessions Of A Concubine (страница 1)

This is a work of fantasy. Names, characters, places and events are imaginary or used in a fictitious key and any reference to people, living or dead, to facts or to truly existing places is purely random Original title of the work: Le confessioni di una concubina First edition

August 2020

IL PORTO

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Second edition in Spanish

Publicado por ©Tektime

December 2020

Third edition in English

Published por ©Tektime

December 2021

386 pages

Roberta Mezzabarba

The confessions

of a concubine

Novel

Translator: Barbara Maher

A subtle fear of freedom exists,

so everyone wants to be slaves.

Everyone talks about freedom, of course,

but no one has the courage to be truly free, because when you are truly free, you are alone.

And only if you dare to be alone can you be free.

OSHO

1.

The confessions of a concubine

The confessions of a concubine.

That is all I am.

Nothing but the concubine of my heartaches, my dissatisfactions, my frustrations, my needs which are duly disregarded, ignored, trampled, vilified, despised, burnt at the stake.

That is what I am, mocked, deprived of all dignity, kneeling at the altar of the wishes of others.

Constrained

Forced into cramped spaces that are ill-suited to my desire for freedom.

At the end of each day, all that remains is a piercing sensation of emptiness inside me, almost