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Soon to be an HBO series, book one in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted family epic by Italy's most beloved and acclaimed writer, Elena Ferrante, "one of the great novelists of our time." (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times)
Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Ferrante's four-volume...
Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Ferrante's four-volume...
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"The ... 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"--Amazon.com.
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"Giovanna’s pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that...
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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...
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A woman goes home to Naples after her mother’s mysterious death in a “tour de force” by the New York Times–bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend (Seattle Times).
Following her mother’s untimely and unexplained drowning, which was preceded by a series of strange phone calls, forty-five-year-old Delia leaves Rome and embarks on a voyage of discovery through...
Following her mother’s untimely and unexplained drowning, which was preceded by a series of strange phone calls, forty-five-year-old Delia leaves Rome and embarks on a voyage of discovery through...
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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...
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From the New York Times–bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, this novel of a deserted wife’s descent into despair—and rage—is “a masterpiece” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
The Days of Abandonment is the gripping story of an Italian woman’s experiences after being suddenly left by her husband after fifteen years of marriage. With two young children to care...
The Days of Abandonment is the gripping story of an Italian woman’s experiences after being suddenly left by her husband after fifteen years of marriage. With two young children to care...
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2018.
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Elena Ferrante inaugura con este libro una tetralogía deslumbrante que tiene como telón de fondo la ciudad de Nápoles a mediados del siglo pasado y como protagonistas a Lenù y Lila, dos jóvenes mujeres que están aprendiendo a gobernar su vida en un entorno donde la astucia, antes que la inteligencia, es el ingrediente de todas las salsas. La relación a menudo tempestuosa entre Lila y Lenù viene acompañada de un coro de voces que...
11) El amor molesto
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Una maña una mujer madura aparece ahogada en el mar, vestida solo con un sujetador de encaje, y será Delia, su hija, quien tandrá que reconstruir la historia que se esconde tras lo sucedido. En un frenética búsqueda que se mueve entre la realidad y las tortuosas vías de la memoria, Delia recorre de nuevo Nápoles, su ciudad natal, reviviendo un pasado que se propuso olvidar, pero vuelve y duele. En esta primera novela, que fue aclamada...
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Once upon a time there were two girls, Lenù and Lila, who were born in 1944 in a poor neighborhood in the city of Naples. Lila married very young with the wealthiest man in the neighborhood and soon left him. Elena, on the other hand, has continued her studies and has even written a novel. Thus, at first sight, nothing unites the two friends anymore, but the neighborhood of Naples where they were girls still claims them, the old customs return them...
13) Un mal nombre
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"Ella me demostró que yo no había ganado nada, simplemente porque en este mundo nuestro no había nada que ganar y lo que de verdad valía la pena era verse de vez en cuando para que el sonido enloquecido de nuestras mentes fuera rebotando de la una a la otra sin parar." Ella es una mujer hermosa, alocada, se llama Lila y ahora, recién cumplidos los dieciséis años, acaba de casarse con un hombre al que desprecia. La otra, que escucha,...
14) La niña perdida
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2018.
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The lost girl puts an end to the story of two women who were born in the mid-twentieth century in Naples and since girls were sharing a peculiar friendship, with moments of doubt or absence, but always complicit. Lila and Lenù are now sweet and have taken different paths: Lenù left Naples to marry and become a successful writer in Milan. Only a love of youth that blooms again will return it to Naples, where Lila waits for her. Men, women, elpaisje,...
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The Neopolitan novels volume 4
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2015.
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"The concluding volume of the dazzling saga of two women: the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. In this book, both are now adults, with husbands, lovers, aging parents and children. Through it all, the women's friendship, examined in its every detail over the course of the four books, remains in the gravitational center of their lives."--Amazon.com.
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2018.
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Todo cambia en la vida de Olga cuando, después de quince años de matrimonio, Mario la abandona por una jovencita. Sola con sus dus hijos, su mundo en apariencia perfecto se desmorona. Atrapada entre las cuatro paredes del piso que antes llamaba hogar, Olge no duerme, no como y casi no se reconoce: cuando se mira por la mañana, la imagen que le devuelve el espejo es la de una mujer que ha perdido todos sus atributos, y tendrá que buscar otras...
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The Neopolitan novels volume 1
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2012.
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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 up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or...
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