Troubling Love

A deeply observed, excruciatingly blunt novel The New Yorker The raging, tormented voice of the author is something rare The New York Times Following her mother s untimely and mysterious death, Delia embarks on a voyage of discovery through the streets of her native Naples searching for the truth about her family A series of mysterious telephone calls leads her to compelling and disturbing revelations about her mother s final days This stylish fiction from the author of The Days of Abandonment is set in a beguiling but often hostile Naples, whose chaotic, suffocating streets become one of the book s central motifs A story about mothers and daughters and the complicated knot of lies and emotions that binds them Elena Ferrante s previous novel, The Days of Abandonment, received excellent critical attention in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Seattle Times, Library Journal, and many other publications Troubling Love is expected to follow in its footsteps Editorial Reviews The pseudonymous Italian author of Days of Abandonment returns with a daughter s attempt to unlock the mystery of her mother s death by drowning following years of domestic abuse Days before her body washed ashore near her hometown of Naples, Amalia called her oldest daughter, Delia, now 45, with shocking news that she was with a man not her estranged husband, a two bit painter then hung up, laughing After the funeral Amalia s husband doesn t show , Delia goes in search of the story behind the expensive new brassiere Amalia was found wearing at her death, incongruous for a poor seamstress who deliberately downplayed her good looks to avoid arousing her husband s savage jealousy Caserta, a man who acted as Delia s father s agent as well as rival for Amalia s attention, plays a role here and in Delia s past In tactile, beautifully restrained prose, Ferrante makes the domestic violence that tore the household apart evident, inc Free Read Troubling Love author Elena Ferrante For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Elena Ferrante s first novel is gripping and very well written.Based on the two Ferrante novels I ve read so far the other being The Days of Abandonment , I predict the title of this one will describe my relationship with all her works Though I wasn t as drawn in at first by the narratorial voice here as I was with that of Days , I ended up feeling much the same about both They are not novels I can say I ve enjoyed as they are so unsettling, but each has gott...Those images of us from so long ago were yellowed, cracked, like the figures of winged demons in certain altarpieces that the faithful have defaced with pointed objects There s something devilishly chaotic about this first novel by Elena Ferrante Somewhere in this infusion of memory and psyche wrapped in a blanket of refined language, are hidden clues and a mystery to be solved Somewhere in this mother daughter relationship is a meshing of two generations of women and one quickly realizes thThose images of us from so long ago were y...Elena Ferrante has such a beautiful and lyrical way of writing This time she tackles the painful subject of the death of Delia s mother from suicide The novel plays as a love letter, interspersed with past and present memories Delia has of ...3.5 stars While not my favorite of Ferrante s novels it was her debut after all , I m still impressed by her voice Even from her very first published novel, Ferrante seems to be so sure of what she has to say or at least confident in approaching touchy subjects and asking big questions This book hits on a lot of major themes that resurface in Ferrante s later works mother daughter relationships, the male gaze, female bodies, identity crises, etc And while it was a bit rough around the edges 3.5 stars While not my favorite of Ferrante s novels it was her debut after all , I m still impressed by her voice Even from her very first published novel, Ferrante seems to be so sure of what she has to say or at least confident in approaching touchy subjects and asking big questions This book hits on a lot of major themes that ...Readers of Ferrante s other books will recognize familiar themes in her first novel estranged yet intense mother daughter relationship, violence in the home, violence in Naples, poverty, lascivious and aggressive men, disassociation from self, the body, the body, the body, particularly a woman s body This book definitely suffered for me having read all her other work and seeing the themes better developed in later work Delia s mother has drowned in an apparent suicide, and Delia goes back to Readers of Ferrante s other books will recognize familiar themes in her first novel estranged yet intense mother daughter relationship, violence in the home, violence in Naples, poverty, lascivious and aggressive men, disassociation from self, the body, the body, the body, particularly a woman s body This book definitely suffered for me having read all her other work and seeing the themes better developed in later work Delia s mother has drowned in an apparent suicide, and Delia goes back to Naples in s...3.5 N o vale a pena fugir ao passado, quanto mais se foge mais ele nos persegue, at nos morder os calcanhares e nos moer de pancadaria, at o enfrentarmos e darmos de caras com a nossa pr pria cara s vezes, do que fugimos de n s mesmos e o reencontro pode ser t o ...Susan Europa Editions, is Italy as depressing and confusing as it appears to be from a survey of your catalogue Europa Editions Unenlightened Reader, what makes you think Italy is depressing It is MAGICAL, as these two books, Troubling Love andFrom the Land of the Moon , clearly show.S Can you explain how confusing illusion for reality because of severe emotional trauma is...Ferrante has the unique ability to make you forgive if not love humanity at its most hateful.A name that has recently gaining serious word of mouth, Elena Ferrante caught my interest, and here was this standalone book to try before attempting her series.It s apparently her first novel, and of course is translated It s also fairly short, though not the least bit a fast read It took me a week, partly because of content.Good the prose, even translated, is a relief from the easy patterns encountered in so much genre storytelling, but at least genre books, even with pedestrian prose, don A name that has recently gaining serious word of mouth, Elena Ferrante caught my interest, and here was this standalone book to try before attempting her series.It s...

• English
• 21 December 2018
Elena Ferrante
• Paperback
• 139 pages
• 1933372168
• Elena Ferrante
• Troubling Love