
Publisher details
- Author
- Elena Ferrante
- Publisher
- Text Publishing
- Released
- 01 September, 2015
- ISBN
- 9781925240511
The Story of the Lost Child
Synopsis
The Story of the Lost Child is the long-awaited fourth volume in the Neapolitan Novels (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay). The quartet traces the friendship between Elena and Lila, from their childhood in a poor neighbourhood in Naples, to their thirties, when both women are mothers but each has chosen a different path. Their lives are still inextricably linked, for better or worse, especially when it comes to the drama of a lost child.
‘The Neapolitan novels represent a new direction...there is an explicit ambition to reinvent her work in the tradition of great popular fiction but also, it seems to me, to give it the amplitude of the classics.’









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