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(0)Elena Ferrante
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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. She has gained admirers among authors--Jhumpa Lahiri, Elizabeth Strout, Claire Messud, to name a few--and critics--James Wood, John Freeman, Eugenia Williamson, for example. But her most resounding success has undoubtedly been with readers, who have...
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Overview: A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante' s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship. The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of...
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Overview: The second book, following last year's My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the...
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"Giovanna’s pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that...
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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...
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Now a major motion picture directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Paul Mescal, and Peter Sarsgaard
Another penetrating Neapolitan story from New York Times–bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of Adults.
Leda, a middle-aged divorcée, is alone for the first time in years after her two adult daughters leave home...
Another penetrating Neapolitan story from New York Times–bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of Adults.
Leda, a middle-aged divorcée, is alone for the first time in years after her two adult daughters leave home...
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2022.
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English
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"Here, in these four crisp essays on writing and reading by the internationally bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of Adults, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. She writes about her influences, her struggles, and her formation as both a reader and a writer; she describes the perils of "bad language" and suggests ways in which it has long excluded women's truth; she proposes a choral fusion...
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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With these words, Elena Ferrante bid farewell to her year-long collaboration with the Guardian newspaper. For a full year, she wrote an article each week, the subjects of which had been suggested by Guardian editors, making the writing process a form of prolonged interlocution.
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Continúa la saga Dos amigas, la historia de la amistad de dos mujeres que recorre los años más importantes del siglo XX. UNA SAGA MEMORABLE «Ferrante es una contadora de historias nata, tan extraordinaria y adictiva como mi también adorado John Irving, una escritora clásica en el sentido maravilloso de la palabra.»
Milena Busquets
«Ella me demostró que yo no había ganado nada, simplemente porque en este mundo nuestro no había nada que ganar......
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Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2020
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Español
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LA AUTORA DE LA SAGA DOS AMIGAS VUELVE PARA RECORDARNOS
POR QUÉ FASCINA A 20.000.000 DE LECTORES EN 42 PAÍSES
Y ES EL MAYOR ENIGMA DE LA LITERATURA ACTUAL DE PRÓXIMA ADAPTACIÓN A UNA SERIE PARA NETFLIX Uno de los 100 libros del año según Time, Esquire y Trendencias «Ferrante es una contadora de historias nata, tan extraordinaria y adictiva como mi también adorado John Irving, una escritora clásica en el sentido maravilloso de la palabra.»
Milena...
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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Once an aspiring writer, Olga traded literary ambition for marriage and motherhood; when Mario dumps her after 15 years, she is utterly unprepared. Though she tells herself that she is a competent woman, nothing like the poverella (poor abandoned wife) that mothers whispered about in her childhood, Olga falls completely apart. Routine chores overwhelm her; she neglects her appearance and forgets her manners; she throws herself at the older musician...
12) Troubling love
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2006, ©1999
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English
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Following her mother's untimely and mysterious death, Delia embarks on a voyage of discovery through the streets of her native Naples searching for the truth about her family.
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"This book invites readers into Elena Ferrante&#x;s workshop. It offers a glimpse into the drawers of her writing desk, those drawers from which emerged her three early standalone novels and the four installments of My Brilliant Friend, known in English as the Neapolitan Quartet. Consisting of over 20 years of letters, essays, reflections, and interviews, it is a unique depiction of an author who embodies a consummate passion for writing. In these...
14) La niña perdida
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LUMEN
Pub. Date
2015
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Español
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La niña perdida pone punto final a «Dos amigas», la historia de dos amigas que nacieron a mediados del siglo XX en Nápoles. UNA SAGA MEMORABLE Y UNO DE LOS 100 MEJORES LIBROS DEL SIGLO XXI SEGÚN THE NEW YORK TIMES «Ferrante es una contadora de historias nata, tan extraordinaria y adictiva como mi también adorado John Irving, una escritora clásica en el sentido maravilloso de la palabra.»
Milena Busquets
Lina y Elena son ahora adultas y han...
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Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2018
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Español
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La historia de cómo una mujer debe reencontrarse a sí misma después de que la separación de su marido suponga el desmoronamiento de todo su mundo.
Una joya de la literatura contemporánea de la gran Elena Ferrante, la autora que ha fascinado a más de 5,5 millones de personas en 42 países.
«Un mediodía de abril, justo después de comer, mi marido me anunció que quería dejarme. Lo dijo mientras quitábamos
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Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2018
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Español
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Escucha las vivencias de las protagonistas de la saga «Dos amigas»: una historia de amistad que recorre los años más importantes del siglo XX.
UNA SAGA MEMORABLE CON MÁS DE 5,5 MILLONES DE SEGUIDORES EN 42 PAÍSES.
Érase una vez dos niñas, Elena y Lila, que nacieron en 1944 en un barrio pobre de la ciudad de Nápoles, y desde entonces su historia ha sido el hilo conductor de esta espléndida saga napolitana que
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"HBO's four-season TV adaptation of My Brilliant Friend has enjoyed success with critics and viewers in the U.S.; the novel has been adapted for the stage and radio plays. Here, for the first time, it is brought to vivid life as a graphic novel by one of Italy's most beloved illustrators. For Ferrante fans, for those new to Ferrante, for readers of graphic novels, Chiara Lagani's and Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend: the graphic novel is a thrilling...