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The story of the lost child / Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Italian Series: Ferrante, Elena. Amica geniale ; bk. 4. | Neapolitan novelsPublisher: New York: Europa Editions, 2015Description: 473 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781609452865
  • 1609452860
Uniform titles:
  • Storia della bambina perduta. English.
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 853.92 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ4866.E6345 S77513 2015
Contents:
Maturity -- Old Age.
Summary: "The ... 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"--Amazon.com.Summary: The brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila have made life's great discoveries, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up-- a prison of conformity, violence, and inviolable taboos. Now, in a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous-- and in a world undergoing epochal change-- Lila and Elena clash, drift apart, reconcile, and clash again, in the process revealing new facets of their friendship.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PQ4866 .E6345 S77513 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001387660

Translated from the Italian.

"The ... 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"--Amazon.com.

The brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila have made life's great discoveries, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up-- a prison of conformity, violence, and inviolable taboos. Now, in a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous-- and in a world undergoing epochal change-- Lila and Elena clash, drift apart, reconcile, and clash again, in the process revealing new facets of their friendship.

Maturity -- Old Age.

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