Bibliograph

The story of the lost child, Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

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The story of the lost child, Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The story of the lost child

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

919585457

Responsibility statement

Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

Series statement

The Neapolitan novels, book 4

Summary

"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..

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