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The Days of Abandonment is a 2002 Italian novel by Elena Ferrante first published in English in 2005, translated by Ann Goldstein and published by Europa Editions. [1] The novel tells the story of an Italian woman living in Turin whose husband abruptly leaves her after fifteen years together.
The Death of Faith (1997) a.k.a. Quietly in Their Sleep [11] - Brunetti comes to the aid of a young nursing sister who is leaving her convent following the unexpected death of five patients. At first, Brunetti's inquiries reveal nothing amiss, and he wonders whether the nun is simply creating a smoke screen to justify abandoning her vocation.
The Story of the Lost Child (Italian: Storia della bambina perduta) is a 2014 novel written by Italian author Elena Ferrante. It is the fourth and final installment of her Neapolitan Novels, preceded by My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, and Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay. It was translated into English by Ann Goldstein in 2015.
The Lost Daughter is a novel published by writer Elena Ferrante in 2006, in Italian (original title: La Figlia Oscura), and translated to English by Ann Goldstein in 2008. The novel was adapted to cinema in the film of the same name , in Maggie Gyllenhaal 's directorial debut, starring Olivia Colman , Jessie Buckley and Dakota Johnson .
The Leaving is a novel by Jumi Bello. In 2022, the novel was canceled by its publisher Riverhead Books prior to release after Bello revealed that much of the book was plagiarized . [ 1 ]
The Herald Scotland gave a mostly positive review for Before We Say Goodbye, writing that it was "an imaginatively constructed work" and that it had excellent atmosphere but that the "weakness of the story is the sense that Ambrosio is sometimes trying to fit the entire Israeli/Palestinian conflict into this short book, making a series of brief references to, for instance, the keys of the ...
"Now I'll show you how an Italian dies!" [51] [52] [53] ("Vi faccio vedere come muore un Italiano!") — Fabrizio Quattrocchi, Italian security officer (14 April 2004), to Islamist militant kidnappers in Iraq forcing him to dig his own grave while wearing a hood. Quattrocchi tried to pull the hood off and shouted his last words, and was then ...
Il Giallo Mondadori is an Italian series of mystery/crime novels published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore since 1929. [1] A 1956 issue of Il Giallo Mondadori. Their original title was I libri gialli, where giallo in Italian means "yellow", a reference to the color of the cover background. [2] The title was changed to I gialli Mondadori in 1946 ...