When her husband Mario leaves her, Olga, left to care for two young children, enters a long period of self-doubt and pity, until she acknowledges the truth about her marriage.

Zusatztext Praise for The Days of Abandonment "A masterpiece...The magic of Days of Abandonment remains the fierce intelligence of its narrator." The Philadelphia Inquirer "The writer is immensely self-aware and her frankness is stunning." The New York Times "Ferrante's novels are tactile and sensual! visceral and dizzying." The Guardian "Nothing you read about Elena Ferrante's work prepares you for the ferocity of it." Amy Rowland! The New York Times "Ferrante's voice feels necessary. She is the Italian Alice Munro." Mona Simpson! author of Casebook and Anywhere But Here "Elena Ferrante: the best angry woman writer ever!" John Waters! director "[Ferrante] describes the female experience so intimately and so vividly that the reader feels like she could (and should) know the writer personally." Kat Stoeffel! New York Magazine "Ferrante puts most other writing at the moment in the shade. She's marvelous" Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North ! Richard Flanagan Informationen zum Autor Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), which was made into a film directed by Roberto Faenza, Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), adapted by Mario Martone, and The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008), soon to be a film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. She is also the author of Incidental Inventions (Europa, 2019), illustrated by Andrea Ucini, Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey (Europa, 2016) and a children's picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night (Europa, 2016). The four volumes 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) were published by Europa Editions in English between 2012 and 2015. My Brilliant Friend, the HBO series directed by Saverio Costanzo, premiered in 2018. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung From the New York Times -bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend ! this novel of a deserted wife's descent into despair-and rage-is "a masterpiece" ( The Philadelphia Inquirer ). 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 obscenities. After running into her husband with his much-younger new lover in public! she cannot even refrain from assaulting him physically. In a "raging! torrential voice" ( The New York Times )! Olga conveys her journey from denial to devastating emptiness-and when she finds herself literally trapped within the four walls of their high-rise apartment! she is forced to confront her ghosts! the potential loss of her own identity! and the possibility that life may never return to normal. "Intelligent and darkly comic." - Publishers Weekly "Remarkable! lucid! austerely honest." - The New Yorker ...

Praise for ***The Days of Abandonment

**"A masterpiece...The magic of Days of Abandonment remains the fierce intelligence of its narrator."
—The Philadelphia Inquirer 

"The writer is immensely self-aware and her frankness is stunning."
—The New York Times 

*"Ferrante's novels are tactile and sensual, visceral and dizzying."*
—The Guardian

*"Nothing you read about Elena Ferrante's work prepares you for the ferocity of it."
—Amy Rowland, *The New York Times 

*"Ferrante's voice feels necessary. She is the Italian Alice Munro."
—Mona Simpson, author of Casebook and *Anywhere But Here 

*"Elena Ferrante: the best angry woman writer ever!"
—John Waters, director

"[Ferrante] describes the female experience so intimately and so vividly that the reader feels like she could (and should) know the writer personally."
—Kat Stoeffel, New York Magazine 

"Ferrante puts most other writing at the moment in the shade. She's marvelous"
—Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan

Autorentext

Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008), 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 2012 and 2015. My Brilliant Friend, the HBO series directed by Saverio Costanzo, premiered in 2018. Ferrante is also the author of Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey (Europa, 2016), a children's picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night (Europa, 2016), and a collection of personal essays illustrated by Andrea Ucini entitled Incidental Inventions (Europa, 2019). 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, 2020). In the Margins, a collection of original essays on reading and writing, was published by Europa in 2022.

Klappentext

THE NEW YORK TIMES' BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY

18M copies of Elena Ferrante's books sold worldwide

"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

Zusammenfassung

From the New York Timesbestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, this novel of a deserted wife's descent into despairand rageis a masterpiece (The Philadelphia Inquirer).

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 obscenities. After running into her husband with his much-younger new lover in public, she cannot even refrain from assaulting him physically.

In a raging, torrential voice (The New York Times), Olga conveys her journey from denial to devastating emptinessand when she finds herself literally trapped within the four walls of their high-rise apartment, she is forced to confront her ghosts, the potential loss of her own identity, and the possibility that life may never return to normal.

Intelligent and darkly comic. Publishers Weekly

Remarkable, lucid, auster…