The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein

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English

Europa Editions
01 March 2022

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

"'Stunning... 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 ""absence of sense"" after being abandoned by her husband. Olga's ""days 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.

'Ferrante puts hammer to flesh and invites her reader to penetrate the page.' - Financial Times 'Extraordinary.' -

The London Review of Books"

By: Elena Ferrante
Translated by: Ann Goldstein
Imprint: Europa Editions
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781787702066
ISBN 10: 1787702065
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 March 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment, Troubling Love, The Lost Daughter, and the fourvolumes of the Neapolitan Quartet (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and ThoseWho Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child), published by Europa Editions between 2012 and 2015. She isalso the author of a children's picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night, and a work ofnon-fiction, Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey. Incidental Inventions, her collected Guardian columns, werepublished in 2019. Ann Goldstein is one of the most accomplished translators from the Italian working today. Best knownfor her translations of Elena Ferrante's oeuvre, she has also brought to Anglo-Saxon readers novels byPrimo Levi, Pierpaolo Pasolini, Alessandro Baricco and other classic and contemporary Italian writers.

Reviews for The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante is a Hypnotist. -The Spectator 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. -The Observer Stunning... The raging, torrential voice of the author is something rare. -The New York Times 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. -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