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The Days of Abandonment
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Shashi
Nov 02, 2016 rated it it was amazing
“I found my self alone, frightened by my own desperation.” - Elena Ferrante

And that’s the beauty of her writing. You suffer reading her words and the pain of Olga. It is so much so that you feel like skipping those painful pages, which was quite difficult for me as I don’t like to leave even one word unread. It is a story of 40 years old woman, Olga, who after marriage was uprooted from her known surroundings and sets up her family and home in a new town. Ferrante's did not waste much time on go
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