With the Neapolitan quartet she has given her readers an abundant, generous, and masterfully plotted page-turner that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight readers for many generations to come. Yet somehow this proximity to a world she has always rejected only brings her role as unacknowledged leader of that world into relief.įerrante is one of the world’s great storytellers. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect her neighborhood. Lila, on the other hand, never succeeded in freeing herself from Naples. But now, she has returned to Naples to be with the man she has always loved.
Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books.
Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up. 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. In this book, life’s great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila. Soon to be an HBO series, book four 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)
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