Elena Ferrante

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1) The lost daughter

Author

Ferrante, Elena

Language

English

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Page to Screen 2020-2021
Reading the Oscars
Women in Translation

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When Leda's daughters leave home to be with their father, she decides to take a trip to a small coastal town in Italy, but soon after she arrives memories from her unsettled past come back to haunt her.

2) The story of a new name

Author

Ferrante, Elena

Series

Neapolitan novels volume 2

Language

English

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Lila and Elena 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 other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed friendship at the center of their emotional lives, the two girls...

3) Those who leave and those who stay

Author

Ferrante, Elena

Series

Neapolitan novels volume 3
Amica geniale volume 3

Language

English

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Continues the story of Lina and Elena as they push against boundaries in 1970s Italy, where Lina has left her husband and is working in a factory while taking care of her son and Elena has graduated college and published a novel.

4) My brilliant friend: book one : childhood, adolescence

Author

Ferrante, Elena

Series

Neapolitan novels volume 1
Amica geniale volume 1

Publisher

Europa Editions

Pub. Date

[2012]

Language

English

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Beginning in the 1950s Elena and Lila grow up in Naples, Italy, mirroring two different aspects of their nation.

5) Frantumaglia: papers: 1993-2003, tesserae 2003-2007, letters 2011-2016

Author

Ferrante, Elena

Publisher

Europa Editions

Pub. Date

2016.

Language

English

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The New York Times best-selling and reclusive Italian authora̮ddressing such subjects as her choice to remain anonymous, her literary inspirations, Italian politics and culture and the role of the writer in modern societyp̮resents a brilliant collection of occasional writings, interviews and letters.