Days of abandonment / Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.

By:

Ferrante, Elena [author.]

Contributor(s):

Goldstein, Ann, 1949- [translator.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: Dal mondoPublisher: New York : Europa Editions, 2005Description: 188 pages ; 21 cmISBN:

9781933372006

Uniform titles:

Giorni dell'abbandono. English

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Psychological fiction.

DDC classification:

853.92 FER

Summary: Once an aspiring writer, Olga traded literary ambition for marriage and motherhood; when Mario dumps her after 15 years, she is utterly unprepared. Though she tells herself that she is a competent woman, nothing like the poverella (poor abandoned wife) that mothers whispered about in her childhood, Olga falls completely apart. Routine chores overwhelm her; she neglects her appearance and forgets her manners; she throws herself at the older musician downstairs; she sees the poverella's ghost. After months of self-pity, anger, doubt, fury, desperation and near madness, her acknowledgments of weaknesses in the marriage feel as earned as they are unsurprising.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	853.92 FER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K699

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Once an aspiring writer, Olga traded literary ambition for marriage and motherhood; when Mario dumps her after 15 years, she is utterly unprepared. Though she tells herself that she is a competent woman, nothing like the poverella (poor abandoned wife) that mothers whispered about in her childhood, Olga falls completely apart. Routine chores overwhelm her; she neglects her appearance and forgets her manners; she throws herself at the older musician downstairs; she sees the poverella's ghost. After months of self-pity, anger, doubt, fury, desperation and near madness, her acknowledgments of weaknesses in the marriage feel as earned as they are unsurprising.

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