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When her husband Mario leaves her, Olga, left to care for two young children, enters a long period of self-doubt and pity, until she acknowledges the truth about her marriage.

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0 woman, abandoned by her husband with two young children to care for, finds herself literally trapped within the four walls of their high-rise apartment and is forced to confront her ghosts, the potential loss of her own identity and the possibility that life may never return to normal. I could not put this novel down. Elena Ferrante will blow you away. - Alice Seibold, author of The Lovely Bones

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Praise for The Days of Abandonment

"A masterpiece...The magic of Days of Abandonment remains the fierce intelligence of its narrator."
-The Philadelphia Inquirer

"The writer is immensely self-aware and her frankness is stunning."
-The New York Times

"Ferrante´s novels are tactile and sensual, visceral and dizzying."
-The Guardian

"Nothing you read about Elena Ferrante´s work prepares you for the ferocity of it."
-Amy Rowland, The New York Times

"Ferrante´s voice feels necessary. She is the Italian Alice Munro."
-Mona Simpson, author of Casebook and Anywhere But Here

"Elena Ferrante: the best angry woman writer ever!"
-John Waters, director

"[Ferrante] describes the female experience so intimately and so vividly that the reader feels like she could (and should) know the writer personally."
-Kat Stoeffel, New York Magazine

"Ferrante puts most other writing at the moment in the shade. She´s marvelous"
-Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan

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Ferrante, Elena

Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), which was made into a film directed by Roberto Faenza, Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), adapted by Mario Martone, and The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008), soon to be a film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. She is also the author of a Frantumaglia: A Writer´s Journey (Europa, 2016) in which she recounts her experience as a novelist, and a children´s 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, and The Story of the Lost Child) were published in America by Europa between 2012 and 2015. The first season of the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, directed by Severio Costanzo premiered in 2018.

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