"Dni odinochestva" — eto tonkaya i psihologicheski vyverennaya proza, italyanskiy roman o zhenschine, kotoruyu brosil muzh, ostaviv ee s dvumya detmi i sobakoy. Olga, glavnaya geroinya, ona zhe i rasskazchitsa, prohodit cherez tyazheleyshee ispytanie, edva ne skatyvaetsya ot gorya i unizheniya v bezumie, no uderzhivaetsya na krayu propasti i prodolzhaet zhit — i lyubit. Sozdavshiy obraz etoy zhenschiny avtor, Elena Ferrante, — lichnost zagadochnaya, predpochitayuschaya ostavatsya v teni svoih knig. Neizvestno dazhe, polzuetsya li ona psevdonimom ili pishet pod sobstvennym imenem. Ee romany perevedeny na 40 yazykov, i v 2016 godu ona voshla v spisok 100 samyh vliyatelnyh lyudey mira po versii ezhenedelnika Time.
