The days of abandonment / Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.
Material type: TextSeries: Dal mondoPublisher: New York : Europa Editions, 2005Description: 188 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1933372001
- 9781933372006 (paperback)
- Giorni dell'abbandono. English
- 853.92 FER 23 013976
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore | 853.92 FER 013976 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 013976 |
"Thirteenth printing, 2016"--t.p. verso.
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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