La figlia oscura, Elena Ferrante 
Leda è un'ancora piacente professoressa universitaria di quarantotto anni. Quando le due figlie si trasferiscono in Canada, with his father (from whom Leda divorced years before) you expect to feel nostalgia for their daughters, and a sense of abandonment. Surprising even herself, Leda live within this posting with a kind of enthusiasm. His life continues, marked by highly personal rhythms no longer forgotten in favor of the very demanding daughters, takes care of his studies, and you discover more relaxed and less distracted.
But when he decided to rent a house in Puglia and spend the summer in the company of his books, well-deserved rest is disturbed by the presence on the shore attended every day of a family of boisterous and vulgar Neapolitan (Leda itself is Naples, even if he lives long in Florence and looking to deny their "embarrassing origins").
In the group of Neapolitans who attracts his attention is Nina, a young mother of a girl who devotes incredible attention. Nina is beautiful, thin and even elegant in her family seems out of place. Leda observes in his relationship with his daughter, who seems to be the realization of the perfect balance between personal needs and the role of mother. This leads her to recall the relationship with his own daughters, who left for three years when they were small, feeling trapped in a role that was suffocating. It also reconsiders the relationship with his mother, a woman whose true of the dreaded flight.
Even though Nina does not live her motherhood so serene, and Leda realizes represent for her a sort of model, hope to live a freer life. And in the midst of these conflicting feelings, Leda is to perform an act "opaque" and stupid, but that will give the floodgates to a series of disturbing events and emotions.
Elena Ferrante. The daughter of darkness.
and / o. 2006. 141 pp. € 14.50.
Novel.
