Neapolitan novels
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Destiny brings childhood friends Elena and Lila back together at different points throughout the years that shape a nation. It all starts in Naples, in the 1950s, when the girls meet in a poor but lively neighborhood where the streets are tough; but these girls are tougher. They bond quickly. Author Ferrante shows how they cross paths throughout their lives, demonstrating the effect of a changing country and a changing friendship. (Original), 336pp....
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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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Soon to be an HBO series, book three 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)
In the third book in the Neapolitan quartet, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant...
In the third book in the Neapolitan quartet, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant...
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As Elena returns to Naples to be with the man she has long loved, her lifelong friend, Lila, an entrepreneur who never escaped the town, deals with the seedier side of Naples as the changing world pulls both volatile friends back into each other's orbit in this final book of the series. Neapolitan novels series, (Original), 464pp.