Cròniques del mal d'amor

The three pieces that we find in Crónicas del desamor have a woman as the protagonist, and all three explore female pain with a firm hand, without concessions to sentimentality. "The annoying love", the first of the pieces, tells the story of Delia's relationship with her mother, Amelia. My mother drowned on the night of May 23, the day of my birthday..., writes the narrator on the first page, and from then on everything will be discovering who Amelia really was. The second piece, entitled "The days of abandonment", tells the story of a young woman, mother of two children, who is suddenly abandoned by her man and has to face a new way of life. Alone in Turin, the woman falls into a spiral of pain that paralyzes her, and Ferrante manages to make us feel that anguish in an almost corporeal way: her gestures, her words, her whole body is the pure expression of a dark evil that goes beyond of betrayal, as if the Greek tragedy had been embodied in the spirit of a woman today. Then, little by little, the resurgence, that new pact with life that is already being made from other premises, that maturity so celebrated that gracefully seals our mistakes. It closes the trilogy "The dark daughter", where we meet Leda, a woman who believes she is alone and free in a small beach town, but the encounter with a very peculiar family will force her to review the relationships she has had with her daughters and discover What are the ties that unite them?