The second book, following last year's My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists 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...

3) The Lying Life of Adults: A Novel

Author

Ferrante, Elena

Pub. Date

2020

Language

English

Formats

Audio, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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The New York Times–bestseller set in a divided Naples—now a Netflix original series—from the acclaimed author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.
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4) Those who leave and those who stay

Author

Ferrante, Elena

Series

Neapolitan novels volume 03

Language

English

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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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...

5) The story of the lost child

Author

Ferrante, Elena

Series

The Neapolitan Novels volume Book 4

Pub. Date

2015

Language

English

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Soon to be an HBO series, book four in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one of today's most beloved and acclaimed writers, Elena Ferrante, "one of the great novelists of our time." (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times)

Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila. In this...

6) In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

Author

Ferrante, Elena

Publisher

Europa Editions

Pub. Date

2022

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

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Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.

In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as "an oracle among authors." Here, in these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her

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7) The Lost Daughter

Author

Ferrante, Elena

Publisher

Blackstone Publishing

Pub. Date

2015

Language

English

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An edgy tale of mixed feelings and motherhood by the New York Times bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend

Leda, a middle-aged divorcée, 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 herself intrigued by Nina, a young mother on the beach, eventually striking up

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8) The lying life of adults

Author

Ferrante, Elena

Publisher

Europa Editions

Pub. Date

2020.

Language

English

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Italian teenager Giovanna searches for a sense of identity and clear perspectives when she finds herself torn between the refinements and excesses of a divided Naples.