The Beach at Night
“Wondrous…This book will be a small delight, another lovely and brutal glimpse of female subtext, of the complicated bonds between mothers and daughters in a cruel and indifferent world.”
New York Times
A Library Journal Audio-in-Advance Pick for November 2016
An Entertainment Weekly Pick of Books to Read This Fall
An NPR Best Book of 2016
A "beautifully written" (Washington Post) dark fable from a doll's point of view by the New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Daughter and the Neapolitan Novels
Readers of Elena Ferrante's The Lost Daughter may recall the little doll-lost or stolen-around which that novel revolves. Here, Ferrante retells the tale from the doll's perspective. Celina is having a terrible night, one full of jealousy for the new kitten, Minù; feelings of abandonment and sadness; misadventures at the hands of the beach attendant; and dark dreams. But she will be happily found by Mati, her child, once the sun rises.
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