Slowly she turned from the window, knelt by the charpoy, and touched her palm to his forehead. He would take from her a lunch of chicken wings and rice. Soon her girls would be home from school her husband, Tofan, would take time from overseeing the harvest to fetch them and check quickly on Khalid, and then he would be off again.
His breath seemed to catch in his adenoids with a sound that gave her a prick of irritation, at which she felt ashamed. Her stepson Khalid lay sleeping on a charpoy, his injured arm dangling. From these they made baskets they would use in the spring, when the trees had returned to flower and to fruit and the dead leaves had scattered in the tall grass.įarishta was looking out from the hujra, the main room of the house. Seated in a circle in the warm sun, the village women pulled stripped branches from the stacks piled up during the monsoon pruning. When the sun rose over the eastern hills they looked plated in gold but as the wind lifted the dry leaves, they whispered like yellow-haired girls sharing secrets. From simple elements, she builds a powerful tale of hope and regret.In the valley below Farishta’s house, the mulberry trees clung fast to their leaves. "Ferrante's prose is stunningly candid, direct and unforgettable. "Although much of the drama takes place in head, Ferrante's gift for psychological horror renders it immediate and visceral." - The New Yorker
After Nina confides a dark secret, one seemingly trivial occurrence leads to events that could destroy Nina's family in this "arresting" novel by the author of the New York Times–bestselling Neapolitan Novels, which have sold millions of copies and been adapted into an HBO series ( Publishers Weekly). But she soon finds herself intrigued by Nina, a young mother on the beach, eventually striking up a conversation with her. Enjoying an unexpected sense of liberty, she heads to the Ionian coast for a vacation. Leda, a middle-aged divorcée, is alone for the first time in years after her two adult daughters leave home to live with their father in Toronto. Now a major motion picture directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Paul Mescal, and Peter SarsgaardĪnother penetrating Neapolitan story from New York Times–bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of Adults.
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