The story of the lost child /
Ferrante, Elena,
The story of the lost child / Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. - 473 pages ; 22 cm - Neapolitan novels ; book 4 .
"Maturity, old age."
Maturity -- Old Age.
The brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila 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.
Translated from the Italian.
The Man Booker International Prize : Shortlist 2016.
9781609452865 1609452860
2016299049
GBB590413 bnb
017436850 Uk
Female friendship--Fiction.
Entrepreneurship--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Amitié féminine--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Female friendship--Fiction.
Female friendship
Women's friendships.
Female friendship--Fiction.
Naples (Italy)--Fiction.
Naples (Italy)
Italy--Naples
Naples (Italy)--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fictional Work
Domestic fiction.
Fiction in translation.
Domestic fiction
Fiction
Historical fiction.
Romans (teksten)
Novels.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Romans.
General.
Fiction in Translation.
PQ4866.E6345 / S77513 2015
853/.914
PZ 4
The story of the lost child / Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. - 473 pages ; 22 cm - Neapolitan novels ; book 4 .
"Maturity, old age."
Maturity -- Old Age.
The brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila 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.
Translated from the Italian.
The Man Booker International Prize : Shortlist 2016.
9781609452865 1609452860
2016299049
GBB590413 bnb
017436850 Uk
Female friendship--Fiction.
Entrepreneurship--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Amitié féminine--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Female friendship--Fiction.
Female friendship
Women's friendships.
Female friendship--Fiction.
Naples (Italy)--Fiction.
Naples (Italy)
Italy--Naples
Naples (Italy)--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fictional Work
Domestic fiction.
Fiction in translation.
Domestic fiction
Fiction
Historical fiction.
Romans (teksten)
Novels.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Romans.
General.
Fiction in Translation.
PQ4866.E6345 / S77513 2015
853/.914
PZ 4