The Lost Daughter
Books | Fiction / Literary
3.5
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Elena Ferrante
"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely BonesFrom 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 trivial occurrence. Ferrante's language is as finely tuned and intense as ever, and she treats her theme with a fierce, candid tenacity.
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Author
Elena Ferrante
Pages
144
Publisher
Europa
Published Date
2008-03-01
ISBN
1609451031 9781609451035
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"Nice line of story. Mothers can find affinity with the protagonist of the story: too much responsibility, frustration, sense of guilt. Highly recommend the book although the movie is also there to watch. "
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"I hate this book! The only reason I finished it is because I listened to the audiobook while working and it was short, and I figured if it was made into a movie it had to have at least something going for it. Nope. Leda is so unlikeable. She's basically a sociopath who should've stayed gone after abandoning her entire family, for their own sake.<br/><br/>Basically, Leda steals a doll that sends a little girl into massive fits and drives the girl's mother crazy, <spoiler>then at the VERY END she gives the doll back to the girl's mother, who then proceeds to stab Leda with a pin Leda gifted her, and that's it.</spoiler> The middle is filled with a bunch of flashbacks to how she was a terrible human/mother who abandoned her children and has no conscience or concern for anyone but herself. The end."
Leah Silecchia
