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أيام الهجران by Elena Ferrante

10 reviews

ruairim95's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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nolanlucy's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Interesting, passages strangely either very relatable or extremely not. Chapter 39, whew.
Issues with where the blame goes (a 15/20 year old) but I understand this as part of the story and character dissection. Also some repetition, maybe just a consequence of translation.

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chidera's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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m4rtt4's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

We support women's rights but also women's wrongs.✨

The issue of Mario being a groomer should have been properly acknowledged but other than that, I don't really have any complaints. Maybe I would have related to Olga more if I was a mother or if I had experienced a break up. Olga's feelings are valid, too often we take mothers and motherhood for granted. (I do not condone all her actions but I understand where they come from)

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paradicsomleves's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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iloveyoutoad's review against another edition

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So many explicit sexual details it made me very uncomfortable to read. I had to stop because at 36% I could not read one more description of genitalia.

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savvylit's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The Days of Abandonment plunges readers into bitterness, pettiness, and rage. Realizing that her marriage was a lie, Olga completely loses her sense of self. Without her marriage and its routines, she completely forgets how to care for herself and her children. The rage and confusion crescendos into one terrible day when Olga finds herself trapped in her apartment. On that day, she realizes just how much she needs to rediscover who she is and how to be. This is a heavy and dark book that unabashedly examines female rage and the ways that wives & mothers are often expected to give all of themselves to their families.

"At every crisis of despair I had set aside my own crises to comfort him. I had disappeared into his minutes, into his hours, so that he could concentrate. I had taken care of the house, I had taken care of the meals, I had taken care of the children, I had taken care of all the boring details of everyday life, while he stubbornly climbed the ladder up from our unprivileged beginnings. And now, now he had left me, carrying off, abruptly, all that time, all that energy, all that effort I had given him, to enjoy its fruits with someone else, a stranger who had not lifted a finger to bear him and rear him and make him become what he had become.”

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