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Jan 1, 2002 · A national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its Italian public when first published. 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.
The Days of Abandonment is a 2002 Italian novel by Elena Ferrante first published in English in 2005, translated by Ann Goldstein and published by Europa Editions. The novel tells the story of an Italian woman living in Turin whose husband abruptly leaves her after fifteen years together.
Aug 11, 2018 · The days of abandonment. Once an aspiring writer, Olga traded literary ambition for marriage and motherhood; when Mario dumps her after 15 years, she is utterly unprepared.
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.
- Elena Ferrante
But five days later he telephoned me in emba rrassment, justified himself, sai d that there had come upon him a sudden absence of sense. The phrase made an impression on me, and I had turned it over and over in my mind. Long aft erward, he had used it again. It was about five years ago, and we were seeing a lot of a colleague of his at the Polytechnic , Gina, an intelligent, cultivated woman fro m a well-off family, who had been recently ...
Sep 1, 2005 · The Days of Abandonment is the gripping story of an Italian woman’s experiences after being suddenly left by her husband after fifteen years of marriage. With two young children to care for, Olga finds it more and more difficult to do the things she used to: keep a spotless house, cook meals with creativity and passion, refrain from using ...
The Days of Abandonment is the gripping story of an Italian woman’s experiences after being suddenly left by her husband after fifteen years of marriage.
- Elena Ferrante
May 4, 2006 · 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.
- Elena Ferrante
The Days of Abandonment. Elena Ferrante. Europa Editions, Sep 1, 2005 - Fiction - 188 pages. From the New York Times–bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, this novel of a deserted wife’s...
Sep 1, 2005 · Ferrante is at her best when her writing holds tight to those nagging, niggling obsessions that make up our mental landscapes."-La StampaA national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of...
