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

by Ferrante, Elena.

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Europa Editions, 2005, c2002.

Separated people -- Fiction.

Neurasthenia -- Fiction.

9871933372006 (trade pbk.)

1933372001 (trade pbk.)

I giorni dell'abbandono English English.

188 p. ; 21 cm.

Translation of: I giorni dell'abbandono.

Translated from the Italian.

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.

Psychological fiction.

Literary fiction.

Italian fiction -- Translations into English.

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