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Also by Elena Ferrante:

In the Margins, March 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
The Story of the Lost Child, September 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, September 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Story Of A New Name, September 2013
Paperback / e-Book
My Brilliant Friend, September 2012
Paperback / e-Book

STORY OF A NEW NAME
By: Elena Ferrante

Europa
September 2013
On Sale: September 3, 2013
480 pages
ISBN: 1609451341
EAN: 9781609451349
Kindle: B00ETSEZDC
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Fiction

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 complicated and meticulously portrayed friendship at the center of their emotional lives, the two girls mature into women, paying the cruel price that this passage exacts.

Media Buzz

Fresh Air - NPR - November 4, 2013