The story of the lost child / Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.
Material type: TextSeries: Neapolitan novels ; book 4Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Europa Editions, 2015Description: 473 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781609452865 (pbk.)
- Storia della bambina perduta. English
- 853.914 FER 23 009918
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore | 853.914 FER 009918 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 009918 |
"Maturity, old age."
Overview: Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila. In this book, both are adults; life's great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. 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. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up-a prison of conformity, violence, and inviolable taboos. 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. For Lila is unstoppable, unmanageable, unforgettable.
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