The Lost Daughter
by Elena Ferrante
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Author: Elena FerranteTranslator: Ann Goldstein
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); Italian (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03-01
ISBN: 1933372427
Number of pages: 125
Publisher: Europa Editions
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Book Review: A Psychologically Dark and Disturbing Look at Motherhood
Summary: 5 Stars
Leda, a 47 year old English professor at an Italian university, decides to take a summer beach vacation in a small coastal town in southern Italy, after her two twenty-something daughters move to Canada to be near their father. Leda has been divorced for some time.
There at the beach she observes day after day, a large, boisterious and somewhat uncouth Neopolitan family. Leda is particularly drawn to Nina, the young mother, her small daughter Elena, Nina's somewhat malevolent husband, and Rosaria, Nina's pregnant sister in law.
A seeminly innocuous event draws Leda more intimately to this family. This event causes Leda to fall into a dark place in which she analyzes the choices she, herself has made as a mother.
This novel is beautifully written and disturbing in its brutally honest exploration of the powerfully conflicting emotions of motherhood.
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