Leda, a middle-aged divorcee, is alone for the first time in years after her two adult daughters leave home to live with their father in Toronto. Enjoying an unexpected sense of liberty, she heads to the Ionian coast for a vacation. But she soon finds...
The Story of the Lost Child is the concluding volume in the dazzling saga of two women-told against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change. Lila and Lenu are now adults, with husbands, lovers,...
In this powerful novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend, fourteen-year-old Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: Naples of...
Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly. The sentence was uttered under his breath, in the apartment that my parents, newly married, had bought in Rione Alto, at the top of Via San Giacomo dei Capri. Everything-the...
A novel in the bestselling quartet about two very different women and their complex friendship: "Everyone should read anything with Ferrante's name on it" ( The Boston Globe ).
From one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, comes this ravishing and generous-hearted novel about a friendship that lasts a lifetime. The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing...
Alors que les événements de 1968 s'annoncent, que les mouvements féministes et protestataires s'organisent, Elena, diplômée de l'École normale supérieure de Pise,
A New York Times BestsellerThe Neapolitan Novels (Book 1)A modern masterpice from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors set against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, this story of...
The characters in the Neapolitan novels are not ¿fancy¿ women; they¿re for the most part not particularly educated, rich or sophisticated. What they are, always, is full of life and self-doubt and self-consciousne...