Format: Trade paperback

Condition: New

Product dimensions: 480 pages, 8.2 X 5.3 X 1.8 in

Publishing Info: Europa Editions, 2013

Language: English

ISBN - 13: 9781609451349

 

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Neapolitan Novels, Book Two

 

In 2012, Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend introduced readers to the unforgettable Elena and Lila, whose lifelong friendship provides the backbone for the Neapolitan Novels. The story continues in Book 2...

Ferrante proves herself to be one of Italy's most accomplished storytellers. She writes vividly about a specific neighborhood of Naples from the late-1950s through to the current day and about two remarkable young women who are very much the products of that place and time. Yet in doing so she has created a world in which readers will recognize themselves and has drawn a marvelously nuanced portrait of friendship.

 

About the Author: Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment, which was made into a film directed by Roberto Faenza, Troubling Love, adapted by Mario Martone, and The Lost Daughter, soon to be a film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. She is also the author of Incidental Inventions, illustrated by Andrea Ucini, Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey and a children's picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night. The four volumes known as the 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 ) were published in English between 2012 and 2015. My Brilliant Friend, the HBO series directed by Saverio Costanzo, premiered in 2018.

 

Ann Goldstein has translated into English all of Elena Ferrante's books, including the New York Times bestseller, The Story of the Lost Child, which was shortlisted for the MAN Booker International Prize. She has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship and is the recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award. She lives in New York.

 

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New Yorker profile on Ferrante