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The Neapolitan Novels Boxed Set Kindle Edition
Beginning with My Brilliant Friend, the four Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante follow Elena and Lila, from their rough-edged upbringing in Naples, Italy, not long after WWII, through the many stages of their lives—and along paths that diverge wildly. Sometimes they are separated by jealousy or hostility or physical distance, but the bond between them is unbreakable, for better or for worse.
This volume includes all four novels: My Brilliant Friend; The Story of a New Name; Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay; and The Story of the Lost Child.
“Imagine if Jane Austen got angry and you’ll have some idea of how explosive these works are.” —The Australian
“Nothing you read about Elena Ferrante’s work prepares you for the ferocity of it.” —The New York Times
“An enduring masterpiece.” —The Atlantic
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherEuropa Editions
- Publication dateOctober 6, 2015
- File size4742 KB
- Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps, and if you want it to endure you have to learn to avoid them.Highlighted by 267 Kindle readers
- “The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women’s intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn’t realize it.”Highlighted by 189 Kindle readers
- “The beauty of mind that Cerullo had from childhood didn’t find an outlet, Greco, and it has all ended up in her face, in her breasts, in her thighs, in her ass, places where it soon fades and it will be as if she had never had it.”Highlighted by 124 Kindle readers
Editorial Reviews
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"Ferrante's Naples Quartet is anything but theater. It is the first genuine literary classic of the 21st century."--The Huffington Post
"One of modern fiction's richest portraits of a friendship."--John Powers, Fresh Air, NPR
"The Neapolitan Novels tell a single story with the possessive force of an origin myth." --Megan O'Grady, Vogue
"Elena Ferrante is one of the great novelists of our time...This is a new version of the way we live now - one we need, one told brilliantly, by a woman." --Roxana Robinson, The New York Times Book Review
"A strong sense of chiaroscuro characterises the tetralogy: the thuggish violence of the Neapolitan stradone, the political activism of the "years of lead", the corruption at every level of society."--Jane Shilling The Evening Standard (UK)
About the Author
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.
Product details
- ASIN : B079MDD33J
- Publisher : Europa Editions (October 6, 2015)
- Publication date : October 6, 2015
- Language : English
- File size : 4742 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 1965 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #119,295 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #538 in Friendship Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #785 in Historical Literary Fiction
- #794 in Women's Literary Fiction
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About the author
Elena Ferrante is the author of seven novels, including four New York Times bestsellers; The Beach at Night, an illustrated book for children; and, Frantumaglia, a collection of letters, literary essays, and interviews. Her fiction has been translated into over forty languages and been shortlisted for the MAN Booker International Prize. In 2016 she was named one of TIME’s most influential people of the year and the New York Times has described her as “one of the great novelists of our time.” Ferrante was born in Naples.
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In short, read these books, and don’t put them down until you’ve finished!
I can totally understand why anyone who is unfamiliar with the Italian national character or with the dark personal & regional struggles associated with post-WWII Italy might find Ferrante’s characters and stories out of the realm of possibility, and totally unlikeable; but her capturing of the human ethology of that era is realistic and gripping ... though not for the faint-hearted! I found her characters and stories fascinating. I’m looking forward to reading more of her works.