Troubling Love: The first novel by the author of My Brilliant Friend
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Troubling Love: The first novel by the author of My Brilliant Friend
By (Author) Elena Ferrante
Translated by Ann Goldstein
Europa Editions
Europa Editions
21st September 2006
United States
Classifications
Physical Properties
Paperback
144
Width 135mm, Height 210mm
Description
Following her mother's untimely and mysterious death, Delia embarks on a voyage of discovery through the streets of her native Naples, searching for the truth about her family. A series of mysterious telephone calls leads to a compelling and disturbing revelation about her mother's final days. A stylish fiction set in a beguiling but often hostile Naples whose chaotic, suffocating streets become one of the book's central motifs.
Reviews
Elena Ferrante has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy - and the world.
* The Sunday Times *Ferrantes polished language belies the rawness of her imagery, which conveys perversity, violence, and bodily functions in ripe detail.
* The New Yorker *Author Bio
Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008), and the four novels known as the Neapolitan Quartet (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child) which were published by Europa Editions between 2012 and 2015. My Brilliant Friend, the HBO series directed by Saverio Costanzo, premiered in 2018. Ferrante is also the author of Frantumaglia: A Writers Journey (Europa, 2016), a childrens picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night (Europa, 2016), and a collection of personal essays illustrated by Andrea Ucini entitled Incidental Inventions (Europa, 2019). The Lost Daughter was made into a feature film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia Colman. Her most recent novel is The Lying Life of Adults (Europa, 2020). In the Margins, a collection of original essays on reading and writing, was published by Europa in 2022. Ann Goldstein is one of the most accomplished translators from the Italian working today. Best known for her translations of Elena Ferrantes oeuvre, she has also translated novels by Primo Levi, Pierpaolo Pasolini, Alessandro Baricco and other classic and contemporary Italian writers.
