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Neapolitan #4
Europa Editions
September 2015
On Sale: September 1, 2015
Featuring: Elena; Lila
480 pages ISBN: 1609452860 EAN: 9781609452865 Kindle: B00XIYG8WE Paperback / e-Book
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“Nothing quite like this has ever been published before,”
proclaimed The Guardian newspaper about the
Neapolitan Novels in 2014. Those Who Leave and Those Who
Stay, the third book in the series, was an international
best seller and a New York Times Notable Book of the
Year. Its author was dubbed “one of the great novelists of
our time” by the New York Times Book Review. This
fourth and final installment in the series raises the bar
even higher and indeed confirms Elena Ferrante as one of the
world’s best living storytellers. Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant,
bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila. In this
book, both are adults; life’s great discoveries have been
made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it
all, the women’s friendship, examined in its every detail
over the course of four books, remains the gravitational
center of their lives. Both women once 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. But now, she has returned to Naples to
be with the man she has always loved. Lila, on the other
hand, never succeeded in freeing herself from Naples. She
has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws
her into closer proximity with the nepotism, chauvinism, and
criminal violence that infect her neighborhood. Yet somehow
this proximity to a world she has always rejected only
brings her role as unacknowledged leader of that world 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, this
story of a lifelong friendship is told with unmatched
honesty. Lila and Elena clash, drift apart, reconcile, and
clash again, in the process revealing new facets of their
friendship. The four volumes in this series constitute a long remarkable
story that readers will return to again and again, and, like
Elena and Lila themselves, every return will bring with it
new discoveries.
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