Those who leave and those who stay

Ferrante, Elena author, Goldstein, Ann, 1949- translator, Ferrante, Elena. Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta

Overview

Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of our most compelling, insightful, and stylish contemporary authors has grown enormously. She has gained admirers among authors--Jhumpa Lahiri, Elizabeth Strout, Claire Messud, to name a few--and critics--James Wood, John Freeman, Eugenia Williamson, for example. But her most resounding success has undoubtedly been with readers, who have discovered in Ferrante a writer who speaks with great power and beauty of the mysteries of belonging, human relationships, love, family, and friendship. In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts of her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of mystery, ignorance and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the nineteen-seventies. Yet they are still very much bound to see each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.

• Publisher: Europa Editions
• Subject: Female friendship Fiction / Italian fiction 21st century Translations into English / English fiction United States 21st century / Naples (Italy) Fiction
• ISBN: 9781609452339

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PQ 4866 .E6345 S76213 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE