Those who leave and those who stay /
In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son. She has left her husband and the comforts of her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighbo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Europa Editions,
[2014]
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| Series: | Ferrante, Elena. Amica geniale ;
book 3. |
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| Summary: | In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son. She has left her husband and the comforts of her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of mystery, ignorance and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the nineteen-seventies. Yet they are still very much bound to see each other by a strong, unbreakable bond. |
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| Item Description: | "Book three: Middle time." |
| Physical Description: | 418 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 160945233X 9781609452339 |