The Story of the Lost Child concludes the dazzling saga of two women,the brilliant,bookish Elena and the fiery,uncontainable Lila,who first met amid the shambles of postwar Italy. In this book,life's great discoveries have been made; its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all,the women's friendship remains the gravitational center of their lives.
Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up. Elena married,moved to Florence,started a family,and published several well-received books. But now,she has returned to Naples to be with the man she has always loved. Lila,on the other hand,never succeeded in freeing herself from Naples. 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. Yet,somehow,this proximity to a world she has always rejected only brings her role as unacknowledged leader of that world into relief.
Publisher: Europa Editions (UK) LtdISBN: 9781787702691Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
"Elena Ferrante's novels have a driving and unconventional narrative power that has gripped readers across a wide cultural range...the last of the quartet The Story of the Lost Child,which has just been longlisted for the Man Booker International prize,is the best."
"This final book in Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet brings a phenomenal literary enterprise to an arresting conclusion."
"A tribute to feminism and female friendship in mid-20th-century Naples."
"The final installation of her Neapolitan quartet,was every bit as sinister and compelling as its predecessors,a vivid and haunting portrait of female friendship that confirms Ferrante as one of the masters of her craft."
"The first work worthy of the Nobel prize to have come out of Italy for many decades."
Elena Ferrante
Named as one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in 2016,Italian author Elena Ferrante is the pseudonym of the author behind some of the most powerful and acclaimed novels of recent times. She is best-known for her internationally bestselling Neapolitan Quartet (My Brilliant Friend,The Story of a New Name,Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay,and The Story of The Lost Child).
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