Story Of The Lost Child, The (Book 4 Of Neapolitan Novels)

Description: Here is the dazzling 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. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up a prison of conformity, violence, and inviolable taboos.

Elena Ferrante is a pseudonymous Italian novelist, who has said that she was born in 1943 in Naples. Ferrante's books, originally published in Italian, have been translated into many languages. Her four-book series of Neapolitan Novels are among her best known works. Time magazine called Ferrante one of the 100 most influential people in 2016.