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The Neapolitan Quartet Book Two
A novel in the bestselling quartet about two very different women and their complex friendship: “Everyone should read anything with Ferrante’s name on it” (The Boston Globe).
The follow-up to My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name continues the epic New York Times–bestselling literary quartet that has inspired an HBO series, and returns us to the world of Lila and Elena, who grew up together in post-WWII Naples, Italy.
In The Story of a New Name, Lila has recently married and made her entrée into the family business; Elena, meanwhile, continues her studies and her exploration of the world beyond the neighborhood that she so often finds stifling. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila, and the pressure to excel is at times too much for Elena. Yet the two young women share a complex and evolving bond that is central to their emotional lives and a source of strength in the face of life’s challenges. In these Neapolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante, “one of the great novelists of our time” (The New York Times), gives us a poignant and universal story about friendship and belonging, a meditation on love and jealousy, freedom and commitment—at once a masterfully plotted page-turner and an intense, generous-hearted family saga.
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choice, conduct of life, dreams, female friendship, fiction, interpersonal relations, Italian fiction, marriage, psychological fiction, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2016-03-27, New York Times bestseller, Marital conflict, Self-perception in women, HistoryPeople
Elena Ferrante, Nino Sarratore, Donato Sarratore, Pietro Airota, Elena Greco, Raffaella CerulloPlaces
Nápoles (Italia), Naples (Italy), Naples, Pisa, ItalyShowing 6 featured editions. View all 23 editions?
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Storia del nuovo cognome: 新名字的故事
2018-01-05, Ren min wen xue chu ban she
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7020125263 9787020125265
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Die Geschichte eines neuen Namens
2017, Suhrkamp
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- 1. Auflage
3518425749 9783518425749
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Le nouveau nom: L'amie prodigieuse II
2017-10-16, Gallimard
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2072693144 9782072693144
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Un mal de nombre
2016, Lumen
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1941999735 9781941999738
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The Story of a New Name: Book Two of The The Neapolitan Novels
2013, Europa Editions
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1609451473 9781609451479
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Friends 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 mature into women, paying the cruel price that this passage exacts.
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