Troubling Love, Elena Ferrante
Troubling Love, Elena Ferrante
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Troubling Love

Author: Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Unabridged: 5 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/04/2015


Synopsis

A woman goes home to Naples after her mother’s mysterious death in a “tour de force” (Seattle Times) by the New York Times bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend.Following her mother’s untimely and unexplained drowning, which was preceded by a series of strange phone calls, forty-five-year-old Delia leaves Rome and embarks on a voyage of discovery through the beguiling yet often hostile streets of her native Naples. She is searching for the truth about her family and the men in her mother’s life, past and present, including an abusive husband.What Delia discovers will be more unsettling than she imagines, but will also reveal truths about herself, in this psychological mystery marked by “tactile, beautifully restrained prose” (Publishers Weekly) about mothers and daughters and the complicated knot of lies and emotions that binds them.

About Elena Ferrante

Elena Ferrante, author of The Days of Abandonment, Troubling Love, and My Brilliant Friend, among others, is one of Italy’s most important and acclaimed contemporary writers. She was named one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2016 by Time.

About Ann Goldstein

Ann Goldstein is a former editor at The New Yorker. She has translated works by, among others, Elena Ferrante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Alessandro Baricco, and is the editor of the Complete Works of Primo Levi in English. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and awards from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in New York.

About Hillary Huber

Hillary Huber is a multiple Audie Award finalist, an Earphones Award winner, and an AudioFile Best Voice. She has recorded over three hundred titles spanning many genres and holds a bachelor's degree in English literature. A voracious reader and listener, she was raised in Connecticut and Hawaii but now splits her time between California and New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by s.penkevich on September 03, 2024

‘I felt that she imagined herself caught between two sets of pupils, expropriated by two gazes.’ Patriarchal societies don’t exactly have a good track record for women to occupy their own space, including their own bodies. The agency of the female body is central to Elena Ferrante’s debut novel, Trou......more

Goodreads review by Valeriu on February 21, 2023

3, 5*. Într-un articol din The Guardian dedicat cărților ilizibile, John Sutherland întreba odată dacă 8 milioane de cititori se pot înșela cu privire la valoarea unui roman. El se gîndea la unul dintre romanele lui Haruki Murakami, 1q84. Și cuteza să răspundă: „Da, se pot înșela, cum să nu?”. Cred c......more

Goodreads review by William2 on July 19, 2018

It’s as if Ferrante were channeling Georges Simenon here, in her first novel, and doing quite a good job of it. Though the great fornicator never had this in depth take on women, being so terribly busy objectifying them. A woman in her sixties is found in the ocean “at a place called Spaccavento, a......more

Goodreads review by Michael on September 04, 2017

Elena Ferrante's first novel is gripping and very well-written.......more

Goodreads review by Auguste on March 24, 2017

Ferrante has the unique ability to make you forgive - if not love - humanity at its most hateful.......more


Quotes

“Ferrante’s polished language belies the rawness of her imagery.” New Yorker

“In tactile, beautifully restrained prose…Ferrante has forcefully delineated how the complicity in violence against women perpetuates a brutal cycle of repetition and silence.” Publishers Weekly

“With the quick-paced mystery guiding the story, Delia explores her relationship with her mother, unraveling memories and secrets repressed since childhood and coming to terms with an upbringing filled with jealousy and violence. As the title indicates, Ferrante’s vivid and powerful descriptions can be somewhat troubling at times, leaving the reader with a memorable sense of unease.” Library Journal

“Pseudonymous Italian novelist Ferrante delivers a brutally frank tale about the dangerous intersection of rage and desire.” Booklist