The Days of Abandonment - Softcover

Ferrante, Elena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933372001 ISBN 13: 9781933372006

Publisher: Europa Editions, 2006

Synopsis

A woman, abandoned by her husband with two young children to care for, finds herself literally trapped within the four walls of their high-rise apartment and is forced to confront her ghosts, the potential loss of her own identity and the possibility that life may never return to normal. I could not put this novel down. Elena Ferrante wi The Lovely Bones

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Review

"This is about a woman with two children whose husband announces that he's leaving her. She really goes wild, exacting revenge and damage on everybody. Then she retrieves her sanity and loses her love for him, and it s brilliantly savage. Elena Ferrante is a wonderful Italian writer; I'm halfway through My Brilliant Friend, about a long-term friendship between two women in Naples." --Bryony Lavery in The Observer

"If you haven't yet been gripped by #ferrantefever and are wondering where to start, allow me to suggest Ferrante's second novel, Days of Abandonment. A slim volume (perfect for those who are unsure about committing to the 1,704 pages of the Neapolitan novels), it tells the story of Olga, a woman whose husband has left her for a younger woman, as she deals with the fallout of their relationship. Olga narrates her story with an unrestrained visceral ugliness that is both shocking and utterly engrossing, and unlike anything else I've read." --Gayle Lazda, London Review of Books

"This is sharp, vicious, dark and it completely took me aback." --Foyles

"Visceral, dizzying, terrifying - this slim book does more in 192 pages than most in double that." -- Verso's Best Books of 2015

"Quite extraordinary - a deeply discomforting, visceral tale of a woman unravelling." --Paula Hawkins in The Guardian

About the Author

Elena Ferrante was born in Naples. She is the author of The Days of Abandonment, which the NewYork Times called &quotstunning", Troubling Love, The Lost Daughter and the critically acclaimed Neopolitan Novels, which include My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child, published in September 2015. Though one of Italy's most important contemporary authors, she has successfully shunned public attention and kept her true identity concealed.

Edition details

• Publisher: Europa Editions
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1933372001
• ISBN 13: 9781933372006
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 192