When her husband abandons her and their two children for a younger woman, Olga's carefully composed life in Turin unravels over one suffocating August, as grief and rage curdle into something closer to derangement.
Books mentioned in The Days of Abandonment (1)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: “That night, when Mario left, I read again the pages in which Anna Karenina goes toward her death, leafed through the ones about women destroyed.”