The Lost Daughter
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The Lost Daughter

Elena Ferrante — 2008
When Leda's daughters leave home to be with their father, she decides to take a trip to a small coastal town in Italy, but soon after she arrives memories from her unsettled past come back to haunt her.
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p.@softrosemint
3.5 stars
May 25, 2024

Compellingly readable as always. Ferrante has an incessant need to examine the female condition from every possible angle and at every possible stage of life. A lot of the themes familiar from her previous works - womanhood, the intelligentsia vs the coarser less educated people, etc. - are present in here, this time represented through the lense of motherhood. Some of this may feel repetitive to casual readers of Ferrante's oeuvre but I really think she is an author whose body of work is worth examining and knowing in its entirety.

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Lauren Attaway@camcray
5 stars
Jan 26, 2022

This was a deeply unpleasant read that was nonetheless fascinating.

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sarah 🤠@sarahsperusals
4 stars
Jan 10, 2022

an interesting look at the ambivalent nature of motherhood. ferrante doesn’t shy away from ugly truths, something i always enjoy.

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Elena Garcia Navarro@elenagn
3 stars
Nov 28, 2021

3.5*

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Olivera Mitić@olyschka
4 stars
Nov 24, 2021

Elena Ferante je očigledno opsednuta određenim temama i motivima, pa se jedne te iste stvari uporno ponavljaju u njenim knjigama. I ovde imamo jug Italije, jednu Lenuču, lutke, komplikovanu ženu sa komplikovanim međuljudskim odnosima i brojna neka pitanja o majčinstvu. Stil pisanja i kvalitet samog teksta su sasvim na mestu, kao i uvek, samo mislim da sam se nakon čitanja 5 njenih drugih knjiga posle ove malo umorila od onoga Å”to je suÅ”tinski jedna te ista priča. Nije ovo finalni raskid, ali mislim da Ferante i meni treba pauza jedna od druge, bar na neko vreme.

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Sarah Erle@serle
4 stars
Sep 11, 2024
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5 stars
Jul 11, 2024
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4 stars
Feb 1, 2024
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5 stars
Aug 3, 2023
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4.5 stars
Aug 3, 2023
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4 stars
Jan 2, 2023
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4 stars
Nov 18, 2022
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4 stars
Sep 11, 2022
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4 stars
Jan 27, 2022
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Steph@stephelaine
4 stars
Jan 21, 2022
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5 stars
Dec 14, 2021
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4 stars
Jul 5, 2024
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2 stars
Mar 11, 2022
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4 stars
Mar 9, 2022
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Mar 4, 2022
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Mar 3, 2022
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3 stars
Nov 24, 2021

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