It is the gripping story of a woman’s descent into devastating emptiness after being abandoned by her husband with two young children to care for. Ferrante is at her best when her writing holds tight to those nagging, niggling obsessions that make up our mental landscapes.’ La Stampa A national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its Italian public when first published.
‘She is among the greatest Italian authors of recent years.’ Corriere della Sera ‘Ferrante dissects the personal microcosm so well, and with awesome lucidity and precision shows us the meanderings of a woman’s mind, the suffering that accompanies being abandoned, and the awful rumbling of time passing.’ El Mundo ‘Elena Ferrante has given us a startlingly beautiful novel of exceptional and bold strength.’ Il Manifesto ‘Severe and rigorously unsentimental, packed full of passages written with dizzying intensity at a rare and acute pitch.
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