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The Days Of Abandonment (Lead)
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Europa Editions
| Author:
FERRANTE, ELENA
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
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Author:
FERRANTE, ELENA
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18M copies of Elena Ferrante’s books sold worldwide €œStunning€¦ the raging, torrential voice of the author is something rare.€- The New York Times THE BREAK-OUT NOVEL BY THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF MY BRILLIANT FRIEND Rarely have the foundations upon which our ideas of motherhood and womanhood rest been so candidly questioned. This compelling novel tells the story of one woman’s headlong descent into what she calls an €œabsence of sense€ after being abandoned by her husband. Olga’s €œdays of abandonment€ become a desperate, dangerous freefall into the darkest places of the soul as she roams the empty streets of a city that she has never learned to love. When she finds herself trapped inside the four walls of her apartment in the middle of a summer heat wave, Olga is forced to confront her ghosts, the potential loss of her own identity, and the possibility that life may never return to normal again.€œFerrante puts hammer to flesh and invites her reader to penetrate the page.€- Financial Times€œExtraordinary.€- The London Review of Books
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18M copies of Elena Ferrante’s books sold worldwide €œStunning€¦ the raging, torrential voice of the author is something rare.€- The New York Times THE BREAK-OUT NOVEL BY THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF MY BRILLIANT FRIEND Rarely have the foundations upon which our ideas of motherhood and womanhood rest been so candidly questioned. This compelling novel tells the story of one woman’s headlong descent into what she calls an €œabsence of sense€ after being abandoned by her husband. Olga’s €œdays of abandonment€ become a desperate, dangerous freefall into the darkest places of the soul as she roams the empty streets of a city that she has never learned to love. When she finds herself trapped inside the four walls of her apartment in the middle of a summer heat wave, Olga is forced to confront her ghosts, the potential loss of her own identity, and the possibility that life may never return to normal again.€œFerrante puts hammer to flesh and invites her reader to penetrate the page.€- Financial Times€œExtraordinary.€- The London Review of Books
About Author
Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 25), Troubling Love (Europa, 26), The Lost Daughter (Europa, 28), and the four novels known as the Neapolitan Quartet (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child) which were published by Europa Editions between 212 and 215. My Brilliant Friend, the HBO series directed by Saverio Costanzo, premiered in 218. Ferrante is also the author of Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey (Europa, 216), a children's picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night (Europa, 216), and a collection of personal essays illustrated by Andrea Ucini entitled Incidental Inventions (Europa, 219). The Lost Daughter was made into a feature film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia Colman. Her most recent novel is The Lying Life of Adults (Europa, 22). In the Margins, a collection of original essays on reading and writing, was published by Europa in 222. Ann Goldstein is one of the most accomplished translators from the Italian working today. Best known for her translations of Elena Ferrante's oeuvre, she has also brought to Anglo-Saxon readers novels by Primo Levi, Pierpaolo Pasolini, Alessandro Baricco and other classic and contemporary Italian writers.
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