Elena Ferrante’s The Days of Abandonment (4/5 stars, priced at $2.99 TODAY ONLY) is today’s Audible Daily Deal. From Amazon:
A national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its Italian public when first published. It is the gripping story of a woman’s descent into devastating emptiness after being abandoned by her husband with two young children to care for. When she finds herself literally trapped within the four walls of their high-rise apartment, she is forced to confront her ghosts, the potential loss of her own identity, and the possibility that life may never return to normal.
“She is among the greatest Italian authors of recent years.”-Corriere della Sera
“Ferrante dissects the personal microcosm so well, and with awesome lucidity and precision shows us the meanderings of a woman’s mind, the suffering that accompanies being abandoned, and the awful rumbling of time passing.”-El Mundo
“Elena Ferrante has given us a startlingly beautiful novel of exceptional and bold strength.”-Il Manifesto
“Severe 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 Stampa
Click here to get The Days of Abandonment.
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