![]() By then her Italian publisher was sure there was a wider audience for her writing, and tried to find a US publisher for the book. Her next, The Days of Abandonment, came ten years later. Her first novel, L’amore molesto, came out in 1992 (translated into English as Troubling Love in 2006). She’s singular because her writing is both compulsively readable and incredibly textured and full of literary beauty, depth and rhythm.”įerrante was a familiar name in her native Italy long before she found worldwide success. “I’m a massive fan and I’d never try and imitate her, but I look up to her work massively. “Reading Ferrante is a completely immersive intellectual and emotional experience,” says Sharlene Teo, whose debut novel Ponti drew comparisons with Ferrante when it came out in 2018. ![]() Ferrante herself has defied expectations of what stories writers – specifically women – get to tell, and in doing so, has shifted the literary landscape both in her native Italy and around the world. ![]() ![]() That her new book opens with a question mark over what makes a compelling narrative is fitting. ![]()
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