Rarely have the foundations upon which our ideas of motherhood and womanhood rest been so candidly questioned. This compelling novel tells the story of one woman's headlong descent into what she calls an 'absence of sense' after being abandoned by her husband.
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'Her novels are intensely, violently personal, and because of this they seem to dangle bristling key chains of confession before the unsuspecting reader.' New Yorker 'Everything Olga encounters becomes part of her pattern of thinking, and is accommodated as though it had always existed. This, rather than any graphic 'candour', is what makes Ferrante's writing extraordinary.' London Review 'Ferrante puts hammer to flesh and invites her reader to penetrate the page.' Financial Times 'Every now and again, an author comes along who dares to remind us that the very pain of abandonment can ratchet us back a few evolutionary notches, knock us to the ground and leave us crawling, babbling like beasts.' San Diego Union-Tribune 'If that's not a great literary novel, I don't know what is.' Elle 'Ferrante is unflinching in drawing a mental landscape that is irrational and cruel...She writes like a rampage, her truth telling implacable and her fury kinetic. The tension in the pages is almost unbearable. The book is a startling treatise on how to stay alive when your world falls apart.' New Zealand Listener 'Quite extraordinary - a deeply discomforting, visceral tale of a woman unraveling.' Paula Hawkins, Guardian, Best Books of 2015 'Visceral, dizzying, terrifying-this slim book does more in 192 pages than most in double that.' Verso's Books of the Year 2015 'It is clear from the first page that this is the same Ferrante, and yet this book is more brutal, more raw, more honest, more unapologetic than the Neapolitan books...Bursting with Ferrante's distinctive prose and her wise insight into the human condition.' Book Riot
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