The Days of Abandonment [Paperback]

From the author ofMy Brilliant Friend

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. 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 Abandonmentshocked 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. 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.

Elena Ferranteis the author ofThe Days of Abandonment(Europa, 2005), which was made into a film directed by Roberto Faenza,Troubling Love(Europa, 2006), adapted by Mario Martone, andThe Lost Daughter(Europa, 2008), soon to be a film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. She is also the author of aFrantumaglia: A Writers Journey(Europa, 2016) in which she recounts her experience as a novelist, and a childrens 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, andThe ló#