Ferrante Elena
Ferrante Elena - The Story Of The Lost Child - Paperback
Ferrante Elena - The Story Of The Lost Child - Paperback
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Description: OVER 14 M OF THE Neapolitan Quartet SOLD Worldwide Nothing quite like this has ever been published before. The Guardian This is high stakes subversive literature. The Daily Telegraph With the publication of her Neapolitan Novels (Ferrante) has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy and the world. The Sunday Times An unconditional masterpiece I was totally enthralled. Jhumpa Lahiri An extraordinary epic. Michiko Kakutani The New York Times To the uninitiated Elena Ferrante is best described as Balzac meets The Sopranos and rewrites feminist theory. The Times Ferrante's writing seems to say something that hasn t been said before in a way so compelling its readers forget where they are abandon friends and disdain sleep. London Review of Books Stunning. An intense forensic exploration of friendship. The Times Literary Supplement The Story of the Lost Child is the concluding volume in the dazzling saga of two women the brilliant bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults with husbands lovers aging parents and children. Their friendship has been the gravitational center of their lives. Both women fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up a prison of conformity violence and inviolable taboos. Elena married moved to Florence started a family and published several well - received books. In this final novel she has returned to Naples drawn back as if responding to the city's obscure magnetism. Lila on the other hand could never free herself from the city of her birth. She has become a successful entrepreneur but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism chauvinism and criminal violence that infect the neighborhood. Proximity to the world she has always rejected only brings her role as its unacknowledged leader into relief. For Lila is unstoppable unmanageable unforgettable. Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change Elena Ferrante tells the story of a lifelong friendship between two women with unmatched honesty and brilliance.
Title: The Story Of The Lost Child
Author(s): Ferrante Elena
Publisher: Europa Editions
Barcode: 9781609452865
Pages: 464 Pages
Publication Date: 9/1/2015
Series: Neapolitan Quartet
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: OVER 14 M OF THE Neapolitan Quartet SOLD Worldwide Nothing quite like this has ever been published before. The Guardian This is high stakes subversive literature. The Daily Telegraph With the publication of her Neapolitan Novels (Ferrante) has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy and the world. The Sunday Times An unconditional masterpiece I was totally enthralled. Jhumpa Lahiri An extraordinary epic. Michiko Kakutani The New York Times To the uninitiated Elena Ferrante is best described as Balzac meets The Sopranos and rewrites feminist theory. The Times Ferrante's writing seems to say something that hasn t been said before in a way so compelling its readers forget where they are abandon friends and disdain sleep. London Review of Books Stunning. An intense forensic exploration of friendship. The Times Literary Supplement The Story of the Lost Child is the concluding volume in the dazzling saga of two women the brilliant bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults with husbands lovers aging parents and children. Their friendship has been the gravitational center of their lives. Both women fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up a prison of conformity violence and inviolable taboos. Elena married moved to Florence started a family and published several well - received books. In this final novel she has returned to Naples drawn back as if responding to the city's obscure magnetism. Lila on the other hand could never free herself from the city of her birth. She has become a successful entrepreneur but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism chauvinism and criminal violence that infect the neighborhood. Proximity to the world she has always rejected only brings her role as its unacknowledged leader into relief. For Lila is unstoppable unmanageable unforgettable. Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change Elena Ferrante tells the story of a lifelong friendship between two women with unmatched honesty and brilliance.
Title: The Story Of The Lost Child
Author(s): Ferrante Elena
Publisher: Europa Editions
Barcode: 9781609452865
Pages: 464 Pages
Publication Date: 9/1/2015
Series: Neapolitan Quartet
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
