The Lost Daughter

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Elena Ferrante The Lost Daughter. Elena Ferrante The Lost Daughter , pp. Italy Available as ebook Available as ebook Available as ebook. Where to buy Where to buy Where to buy.

Sep 7 Asymptote: Jun 30 Tweed Magazine: Maurizio de Giovanni Cold for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone , pp. The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante. From the author of The Days of Abandonment , The Lost Daughter is Elena Ferrante's most compelling and perceptive meditation on womanhood and motherhood yet.

Leda, a middle-aged divorce, is alone for the first time in years when her daughters leave home to live with their father. Her initial, unexpected sense of liberty turns to ferocious introspection following a seemingly From the author of The Days of Abandonment , The Lost Daughter is Elena Ferrante's most compelling and perceptive meditation on womanhood and motherhood yet. Her initial, unexpected sense of liberty turns to ferocious introspection following a seemingly trivial occurrence. Ferrante's language is as finely tuned and intense as ever, and she treats her theme with a fierce, candid tenacity.

Paperback , pages. Published March 1st by Europa Editions first published To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Lost Daughter , please sign up. This question contains spoilers… view spoiler [What do you think the point was on her keeping the doll? See 2 questions about The Lost Daughter…. Lists with This Book. Uno scrittore deve scavare in quei sentimenti che vorremmo non avere. Abbiamo sentimenti diversi e uno scrittore deve restituirceli e restituirci a essi, in modo veritiero.

The Lost Daughter

E di cosa si ha bisogno quando si prende in mano un libro? Senza questo, la nostra empatia si appiattirebbe, o non esisterebbe.

Io voglio aiutare le persone a capire un po' meglio le loro madri e i loro padri o i loro vicini di casa o le persone dalla pelle di colore diverso o di religione diversa. Altri li giudicheranno, forse, e sta bene. Ma i miei personaggi sono completamente liberi dal mio giudizio. Lascio che si amino, in modo imperfetto, come noi tutti amiamo in modo imperfetto. Non mi interessa il bene o il male, materia del melodramma. Quando mia figlia era bambina, amava tantissimo i suoi pupazzi di peluche. Un giorno mi ha accompagnato in camera sua tenendomi per mano con la sua manina umida.

‘The Lost Daughter’ by Elena Ferrante (Review)

Aveva allineato tutti i suoi peluche in fila. Mi ha guardato con orgoglio e mi ha detto: Ho ripensato spesso a quelle sue parole. Sono personaggi che ci perdonano mentre noi perdoniamo loro. Questi sono i nostri amici. Una scrittrice che ammira e apprezza molto le opere di Elena Ferrante.

The Lost Daughter

Sono parole di Elizabeth Strout. Apr 14, Jennifer rated it really liked it. This is going to sound strange -- I loved this book, but I didn't enjoy it. The story involves a mother of grown daughters who is dealing with her own ambivalence at what she gave up to assume that role. The author manages to take the flicker of lost independence that every mother feels and magnify it and state it in a brutal and unflinching way.

I hated the narrator, but I couldn't look away. Nov 05, Antonia rated it it was amazing. After four read books, I can conclude that I experience an unconditional devotion to Ferrante's novels and emphatically place her amongst my favorite authors. I simply admire the frankness and the brutality of her thoughts and celebrate eagerly the woman's manifest in each sentence.

Ferrante's struggle is to shatter the assumed, especially in conservative societies, image of the woman - the mother, the wife, the housekeeper. This is the similarity I find in each novel - the endeavor to redeem pa After four read books, I can conclude that I experience an unconditional devotion to Ferrante's novels and emphatically place her amongst my favorite authors. This is the similarity I find in each novel - the endeavor to redeem past presumption for the sake of the womanhood. Elena Ferrante possesses one of the most elegant and precise literary styles I have encountered in contemporary literature.

Apr 15, Dem rated it did not like it Shelves: The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante was out bookclub end of season read. I have to admit I totally struggled with the characters and the plot of this n The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante was out bookclub end of season read. I have to admit I totally struggled with the characters and the plot of this novel. I could not identify with Leda or any of her ideas on motherhood. I found the novel bizarre and while the writing in places was strong the plot and the characters were just too bizarre for my liking.

It didn't generate the discussion as a group we had hoped for.

The book has received great reviews online and once again I am in the minority in my dislike of this one. View all 8 comments. Apr 30, William2 rated it really liked it Shelves: As in the Neapolitan novels, Ferrante again shows in harrowing detail the absolute misery of child rearing. The annoyances, the resentments, the hatreds, to and from both parent and child. With regard to another, younger mother whose little girl is throwing a fit at the moment, she says: She had tried to see herself in the mirror as she had been before bringing that organism into the world, before condemning herself forever to adding it on to hers.

Instead, the bond will become more twisted, will strengthen in remorse, in the humiliation of having shown herself in public to be an unaffectionate mother, not the mother of church or the Sunday supplements. Feb 24, Teresa rated it really liked it. The Days of Abandonment. Throw these titles up in the air and whichever lands on whichever book, it would fit. Not the covers, though: Ferrante's first-person female narrators could almost be the same woman at different stages of life, except for the three being too close in age and possessing different voices.

They are creative women with similar Neapolitan mothers, though with different family ties: Maybe I'm getting used to Ferrante, or more likely it's Leda's dispassionate tone, because I didn't find this one as unsettling as the previous two, though its themes especially the one at its core are arguably even more provocative.

I admired the novel's circularity and its repetition of lost daughters, including a reference to a story called Olivia if I'm correct in believing it's the Italian folktale that Italo Calvino collected under the title of Olive. View all 6 comments. Nov 12, Maxwell rated it liked it Shelves: As all of Ferrante's novels do, The Lost Daughter looks intimately at the complicated nature of motherhood and femininity.

Leda, a year old divorcee, is on vacation after her two daughters, now adults, move to live with their father in Canada. She spends her summer by the beach where she meets Nina, a young mother, and her daughter, Lenuccia, who is obsessed with her doll that eventually goes missing.

Leda's interactions with this Neapolitan family gets her tied up in something bigger than he As all of Ferrante's novels do, The Lost Daughter looks intimately at the complicated nature of motherhood and femininity. Leda's interactions with this Neapolitan family gets her tied up in something bigger than herself and also forces her to confront her role as mother and the choices she's made in the past.

It's a tightly written novel, expertly crafted but lacks the insight and power that Ferrante's other novels have. Overall, an interesting read but not one that will blow you away. Apr 09, Jeanette rated it really liked it. This is certainly not a 4 star for enjoyment, but in writing ability and emotive core character layered, nearly a 5. This one is vilely unlikable.

She was to me. She self-describes as "the unnatural Mother". It's a state of hurt from both generational directions Ewww! It's a state of hurt from both generational directions here in full detail of aftermath. Harsh, loud and blunt. Honestly I would only rec this book if you have high interest in extremely unhappy women within the classic dichotomies of psychological self-identity dislike coupled with perpetual dissatisfaction in life and particularly their role fulfillment.

Not just in Motherhood, either. What could be more peaceful? But on the beach she soon encounters an extended Neapolitan family, loud, boisterous, speaking the dialect of her youth, a "tender language of playfulness and sweet nothings. She recalls her father and uncles and how "every question sounded on their lips like an order barely disguised…if necessary they could be vulgarly insulting and violent.

In the beginning, Leda merely observes Nina, a young mother, and her daughter Elena and the beloved doll that is the object of the child's affection. Over the course of a few days, their lives become intertwined. When Elena goes missing, Leda finds her.

Leda remembers how she herself was lost as a child and her panic when one of her own daughters was lost. But when Nani, Elena's doll, goes missing the novel reaches its emotional epicenter.

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