--- product_id: 7444728 title: "The Days of Abandonment" price: "€ 5.43" currency: EUR in_stock: false reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.gr/products/7444728-the-days-of-abandonment store_origin: GR region: Greece --- # The Days of Abandonment **Price:** € 5.43 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Days of Abandonment - **How much does it cost?** € 5.43 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.gr](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/7444728-the-days-of-abandonment) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description "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 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. Elena Ferrante was born in Naples. Though she is one of Italy's most important and acclaimed contemporary authors, her identity is a mystery. Theories and speculation as to who Elena Ferrante really is continue to circulate; however, the author has successfully shunned public attention and has been able to keep her whereabouts and her true identity concealed. The Days of Abandonment , her second novel, is currently being made into a film by director Roberto Faenza, due for release in North America in 2006. Review: Most of us Have Been There....Ferrante Captures Her "Days of Abandonment" - I had been warned by some reviews and by friends that had read "The Days of Abandonment" to realize that it may be hard to read and a little weird. I had just finished lounging in the pure ecstasy that only prolific readers know, of reading Ferrante's "The Neapolitan Series". Basking in the afterglow of that intense literary experience I immediately downloaded "Frantamaglia: A Writer's Journey" which is Ferrante's musings on writing her amazing books. It quickly became apparent that I would not be able to enjoy the full impact of the journal without reading "The Days of Abandonment". I should have known that Elena Ferrante is not capable of letting her readers down. I languished on every sentence of 32 year old Olga, attempting to navigate the first month of being suddenly abandoned by her beloved husband, Mario and their two children for a younger woman. Olga quickly finds herself behaving irrationally. The worst thing possible has occurred as far as she is concerned and she has no choice but to continue with the mundane duties of everyday life....caring for her children, managing everything in her home and trying to regain her sense of femininity and autonomy after being nothing but Mario's wife and loving mother to his children after 15 years. She loses it. Completely. Her life becomes literally a stream of consciousness. She is just not writing in this style....this is the way her life is unfolding. I have never experienced a writer put this kind of feeling down in words so very powerful and succinctly. Yes, it is weird. Because she is feeling exceedingly weird and the reader soaks up every bit of it. I have experienced this state of mind when I was very young and have often wondered how to verbalize it, let alone put words to describe it down on paper. The house, the children, the grocery shopping, the laundry, and every other ordinary life event become distorted and that is the way Olga tells us what she is experiencing. Before reading this book I would have told you that it was impossible to express these feelings the way that Ferrante manages to do. She does it and it is absolutely mesmerizing. If you are a Elena Ferrante fan, you cannot miss the "The Days of Abandonment". If you are new to this author, start with the Neapolitan series. You will get to know the author first and understand her extraordinary writing skills before you begin. This book takes you on Olga's emotional journey. It will become real to you, not just a literary experience. This author has captured a feeling, a mania, a phenomena, that before reading this book I would have thought that no one could do. This is painting with words. It is a rare, carefully written work, that deserves to be carefully read. Review: Powerful, Raw, and Deeply Personal – A Mirror I Didn’t Expect. - This story hit hard for me. I finally decided to read it after living through my own heartbreak 6 years ago. My husband left me in the middle of the night, returning to his ex-wife without warning. The emotional chaos that followed felt unbearable, and reading this novel was like seeing my pain laid bare on the page. Elena Ferrante captures the unraveling of a woman with brutal honesty. Olga’s inner turmoil, obsessive thoughts, and desperate attempts to hold herself and her children together mirrored so much of what I experienced. I even found myself, like Olga, testing interactions with others, trying to understand whether something was wrong with me, or if the world had shifted without telling me. It’s not an easy read—emotionally intense and sometimes overwhelming—but it’s real. Ferrante doesn’t sanitize the experience of abandonment; but she shows it in all its rage, confusion, and slow rebuilding. And at the end, I loved the way Olga gradual began to reclaim who she was and why she was needed for herself. She gave hope to a what she thought was a hopeless situation. Survival is possible even when it’s messy! ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #280,454 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,413 in Women's Domestic Life Fiction #2,996 in Psychological Fiction (Books) #5,496 in Literary Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 3.9 out of 5 stars 4,506 Reviews | ## Images ![The Days of Abandonment - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71BidhZxc-L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Most of us Have Been There....Ferrante Captures Her "Days of Abandonment" *by S***T on August 17, 2017* I had been warned by some reviews and by friends that had read "The Days of Abandonment" to realize that it may be hard to read and a little weird. I had just finished lounging in the pure ecstasy that only prolific readers know, of reading Ferrante's "The Neapolitan Series". Basking in the afterglow of that intense literary experience I immediately downloaded "Frantamaglia: A Writer's Journey" which is Ferrante's musings on writing her amazing books. It quickly became apparent that I would not be able to enjoy the full impact of the journal without reading "The Days of Abandonment". I should have known that Elena Ferrante is not capable of letting her readers down. I languished on every sentence of 32 year old Olga, attempting to navigate the first month of being suddenly abandoned by her beloved husband, Mario and their two children for a younger woman. Olga quickly finds herself behaving irrationally. The worst thing possible has occurred as far as she is concerned and she has no choice but to continue with the mundane duties of everyday life....caring for her children, managing everything in her home and trying to regain her sense of femininity and autonomy after being nothing but Mario's wife and loving mother to his children after 15 years. She loses it. Completely. Her life becomes literally a stream of consciousness. She is just not writing in this style....this is the way her life is unfolding. I have never experienced a writer put this kind of feeling down in words so very powerful and succinctly. Yes, it is weird. Because she is feeling exceedingly weird and the reader soaks up every bit of it. I have experienced this state of mind when I was very young and have often wondered how to verbalize it, let alone put words to describe it down on paper. The house, the children, the grocery shopping, the laundry, and every other ordinary life event become distorted and that is the way Olga tells us what she is experiencing. Before reading this book I would have told you that it was impossible to express these feelings the way that Ferrante manages to do. She does it and it is absolutely mesmerizing. If you are a Elena Ferrante fan, you cannot miss the "The Days of Abandonment". If you are new to this author, start with the Neapolitan series. You will get to know the author first and understand her extraordinary writing skills before you begin. This book takes you on Olga's emotional journey. It will become real to you, not just a literary experience. This author has captured a feeling, a mania, a phenomena, that before reading this book I would have thought that no one could do. This is painting with words. It is a rare, carefully written work, that deserves to be carefully read. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Powerful, Raw, and Deeply Personal – A Mirror I Didn’t Expect. *by S***D on May 7, 2025* This story hit hard for me. I finally decided to read it after living through my own heartbreak 6 years ago. My husband left me in the middle of the night, returning to his ex-wife without warning. The emotional chaos that followed felt unbearable, and reading this novel was like seeing my pain laid bare on the page. Elena Ferrante captures the unraveling of a woman with brutal honesty. Olga’s inner turmoil, obsessive thoughts, and desperate attempts to hold herself and her children together mirrored so much of what I experienced. I even found myself, like Olga, testing interactions with others, trying to understand whether something was wrong with me, or if the world had shifted without telling me. It’s not an easy read—emotionally intense and sometimes overwhelming—but it’s real. Ferrante doesn’t sanitize the experience of abandonment; but she shows it in all its rage, confusion, and slow rebuilding. And at the end, I loved the way Olga gradual began to reclaim who she was and why she was needed for herself. She gave hope to a what she thought was a hopeless situation. Survival is possible even when it’s messy! ### ⭐⭐⭐ Very depressing *by L***Z on July 28, 2025* Beautiful writer very good translation, but unfortunately not my style. This book is not for the faint of heart. 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