Drowning and screaming: The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

Before her Neapolitan Quartet made her an international literary star, Elena Ferrante published The Days of Abandonment. Ferrante has never bee photographed or interviewed and goes by a pseudonym, but on the basis of this novel we believe she is a woman. The Days of Abandonment, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein, is the […]