New novel Dark Daughter from the bestselling author of Genius Girlfriend
Leda, a professor of English literature at the University of Florence, comes, like all the heroines of Elena Ferrante's novels, from Naples. She once ran away from there to get married and give birth to two daughters. She is now relaxing on a beach in southern Italy, divorced, her grown-up children have gone to live with their father and, to her surprise, she feels happy and free at last. However, a meeting with a young mother Nina and her young daughter awakens in her some lingering memories of her childhood, on your mother, that she had, like most of Elena Ferrante's heroines, complicated relationship, and the daughters, that she loved so much, until she got scared, that she'll dissolve into them and lose herself.
The initially peaceful contemplation of a new life gradually turns into a wrenching confrontation with dark memories that eventually leads to drama. In this novel, Elena Ferrante also looks into the innermost parts of a woman, into her hidden corners, revealing the heroine's disturbed relationships with her family, her partner and herself, and letting her long-suppressed destructive feelings come to the surface.
