The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante · 2002 CE · Novel · Italian · Contemporary

A Turin woman, Olga, is left by her husband for a younger woman and, shut in a hot flat with two children and a sick dog, loses her grip over one summer. Her narration breaks down with her. Ferrante's second novel was the book that made her name before the Neapolitan quartet.

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