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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Elena Ferrante
Neapolitan
Europa
September 2014
On Sale: September 2, 2014
Featuring: Elena; Lila
ISBN: 1609452232
EAN: 9781609452230
Kindle: B079MHDBZ2
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Historical | Fiction
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 abusive
husband and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the
neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful
novel, all of which have opened the doors to a world of learned
interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women have pushed
against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of
misery, 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 each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.
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