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A gem of contemporary literature from the great Elena Ferrante, the author who has fascinated over 20 million readers in 42 countries and is the greatest enigma in current literature "Ferrante is a born storyteller, as extraordinary and addictive as my beloved John Irving, a ...
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The Days of Abandonment
A gem of contemporary literature from the great Elena Ferrante, the author who has fascinated over 20 million readers in 42 countries and is the greatest enigma in current literature "Ferrante is a born storyteller, as extraordinary and addictive as my beloved John Irving, a classic writer in the wonderful sense of the word." "One April afternoon, right after lunch, my husband announced that he wanted to leave me. He said it while we were clearing the table..." Everything changes in Olga's life when, after fifteen years of marriage, Mario leaves her for a young woman. Alone with her two children, the woman's seemingly perfect world crumbles. Trapped within the four walls of the apartment she once called home, Olga doesn't sleep, doesn't eat, and barely recognizes herself: the woman on the other side of the mirror when she looks in the morning is a woman who has lost all her attributes and will have to search for other words to define her and allow her to move forward. Reading The Days of Abandonment, we become witnesses to a free fall into desolation, a place where nothing makes sense anymore, but as in all good books, in this "soul thriller" there is also room for surprise, and abandonment can open doors that were once walls. Critics have said: "Basically a perfect book." "Ferrante's characters are reminiscent of Russian dolls, each one containing another doll, then another, until the last, the most enigmatic." "It's best to accept the game as the author presents it: what matters is not her face, nor the details of her life. What matters is her literature stripped of everything but the text itself." "It's hard to disappoint. But Ferrante skillfully handles the elements that make her strong and that she enhances in her wonderful narrative." "On my nightstand are Virginia Woolf's diaries, Chekhov's short stories, and Elena Ferrante's novels." "I'm a fan of her novels, which delve into friendship, as we women understand it, in great detail." "Whenever I enjoy a book, I give it as a gift, and now I would choose one of Elena Ferrante's novels." "It captivated me. It had a great impact on me." "Elena Ferrante's novels have kept me glued to my armchair, reading and celebrating pages where emotion is never trivial." "When a reader enters these pages, they begin to feel things they have lived, suffered, enjoyed, and they feel them told for the first time from another place, far from clichés, from ideology, from militancy." "I started with My Brilliant Friend and couldn't stop reading, thinking about the novel." "The most transcendent revelation of European narrative in the last quarter century." |
Editorial: DEBOLSILLO Fecha de publicación: Páginas: 224 Empastado: Tapa Blanda Idioma: Español |
