Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
The bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by one of the great novelists of our time.
In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women.
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
Format: Trade paperback
Condition: New
Product dimensions: 400 pages, 8.23 X 5.27 X 1.27 in
Publishing Info: Europa Editions, 2014
Language: English
ISBN - 13: 9781609452339
The bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by one of the great novelists of our time.
Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of our most compelling, insightful, and stylish contemporary authors has grown enormously. Ferrante speaks with great power and beauty of the mysteries of belonging, human relationships, love, family, and friendship.
In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women...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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