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Neapolitan novels

Author

Ferrante, Elena

1) My brilliant friend

Author

Ferrante, Elena

Series

Neapolitan novels volume 1
L'amica geniale

Pub. Date

2012.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

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Beginning in the 1950s Elena and Lila grow up in Naples, Italy, mirroring two different aspects of their nation.

2) The story of a new name

Author

Ferrante, Elena

Series

Neapolitan novels volume 2
Amica geniale volume 2

Publisher

Europa Editions

Pub. Date

2013.

Language

English

Description

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Lila is imprisoned by marriage, while Elena continues her journey of self-discovery, until their friendship, which is at the center of their emotional lives, forces them both to mature into women.

3) Those who leave and those who stay

Author

Ferrante, Elena

Series

Neapolitan novels volume 3
L'amica geniale

Publisher

Europa Editions

Pub. Date

2014.

Language

English

Description

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Continues the story of Lina and Elena as they push against boundaries in 1970s Italy, where Lina has left her husband and is working in a factory while taking care of her son and Elena has graduated college and published a novel.

4) The story of the lost child

Author

Ferrante, Elena

Series

Neapolitan novels volume 4
Amica geniale volume 4

Publisher

Europa Editions

Pub. Date

2015.

Language

English

Description

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Follows the continuing story of the friendship between fiery Lina and bookish Elena, now grown with children and successful in their chosen careers, and both again living in Naples, the city of their birth.