She is among the greatest Italian authors of recent years.-Corriere della SeraFerrante dissects the personal microcosm so well, and with awesome lucidity and precision shows us the meanderings of a womans mind, the suffering that accompanies being abandoned, and the awful rumbling of time passing.-El MundoElena Ferrante has given us a startlingly beautiful novel of exceptional and bold strength.-Il ManifestoSevere and rigorously unsentimental, packed full of passages written with dizzying intensity at a rare and acute pitch. Ferrante is at her best when her writing holds tight to those nagging, niggling obsessions that make up our mental landscapes.-La StampaA national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its Italian public when first published.
