Elena Ferrante
Author
Series
Neapolitan volume 1
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante's inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship. The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing...
Author
Series
Neapolitan novels volume 4
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
473 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Neapolitan novels volume 3
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Elena and Lila 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 have attempted are pushing against the walls of a prison that would...
Author
Series
The Neapolitan novels volume Book 2
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Europa edition.
Physical Desc
471 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lila and Elena are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed friendship at the center of their emotional lives, the two girls...