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The Days of Abandonment
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Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment, Troubling Love, The Lost Daughter, and the fourvolumes of the Neapolitan Quartet (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and ThoseWho Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child), published by Europa Editions between 2012 and 2015. She isalso the author of a children's picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night, and a work ofnon-fiction, Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey. Incidental Inventions, her collected Guardian columns, werepublished in 2019.

Ann Goldstein is one of the most accomplished translators from the Italian working today. Best knownfor her translations of Elena Ferrante's oeuvre, she has also brought to Anglo-Saxon readers novels byPrimo Levi, Pierpaolo Pasolini, Alessandro Baricco and other classic and contemporary Italian writers.

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'Elena Ferrante is a Hypnotist.' - The Spectator

'"This is sharp, vicious, dark and it completely took me aback."' - Foyles

'"Visceral, dizzying, terrifying - this slim book does more in 192 pages than most in double that."' - Verso's Best Books of 2015

'"Ferrante puts hammer to flesh and invites her reader to penetrate the page."' - Financial Times

'"Extraordinary."' - The London Review of Books

'"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."' - Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones

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