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Troubling Love

The first novel by the author of My Brilliant Friend

Elena Ferrante author Ann Goldstein translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Europa Editions (UK) Ltd

Published:13th Oct '22

Should be back in stock very soon

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The debut novel from the author of My Brilliant Friend in a brand-new edition

Following her mother’s untimely death, Delia sets off on a breath-taking odyssey through the chaotic, suffocating streets of her native Naples in search of the truth about her family.

Reality is buried in the fertile soil of memory, and Delia digs deep to reconcile the past with the mysterious events leading up to her mother’s death. Spurred by a series of anonymous phone calls, Delia reconstructs her mother’s final days and with every new discovery must face the possibility that her mother was not at all the person Delia believed her to be. To learn the truth and to untangle the knot of lies, passions and memories that bind mother and daughter, Delia must return to the Naples of her childhood.

“Elena Ferrante has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy - and the world.” 

* The Sunday Times *

“Ferrante’s polished language belies the rawness of her imagery, which conveys perversity, violence, and bodily functions in ripe detail.”

* The New York

ISBN: 9781787704664

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

144 pages