Elena Ferrante
Author
Language
English
Description
Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find herself and save herself? She is searching for a new face in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: the Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and the Naples of the depths, which professes to be a place of excess and vulgarity. She moves...
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The second book, following last year's My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists 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...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of our most compelling, insightful, and stylish contemporary authors has grown enormously. She has gained admirers among authors--Jhumpa Lahiri, Elizabeth Strout, Claire Messud, to name a few--and critics--James Wood, John Freeman, Eugenia Williamson, for example. But her most resounding success has undoubtedly been with readers, who have...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The ... 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"--Amazon.com.
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
Once an aspiring writer, Olga traded literary ambition for marriage and motherhood; when Mario dumps her after 15 years, she is utterly unprepared. Though she tells herself that she is a competent woman, nothing like the poverella (poor abandoned wife) that mothers whispered about in her childhood, Olga falls completely apart. Routine chores overwhelm her; she neglects her appearance and forgets her manners; she throws herself at the older musician...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
Elena Ferrante inaugura con este libro una tetralogía deslumbrante que tiene como telón de fondo la ciudad de Nápoles a mediados del siglo pasado y como protagonistas a Lenù y Lila, dos jóvenes mujeres que están aprendiendo a gobernar su vida en un entorno donde la astucia, antes que la inteligencia, es el ingrediente de todas las salsas. La relación a menudo tempestuosa entre Lila y Lenù viene acompañada de un coro de voces que dan cuerpo...
Author
Publisher
LUMEN
Pub. Date
2018
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Una joya de la literatura contemporánea de la gran Elena Ferrante, la autora que ha fascinado a más de 20 millones de lectores en 42 países, que será llevada al cine por Isabel Coixet con Penélope Cruz como protagonista «Ferrante es una contadora de historias nata, tan extraordinaria y adictiva como mi también adorado John Irving, una escritora clásica en el sentido maravilloso de la palabra.»
Milena Busquets
«Un mediodía de abril, justo...
Author
Language
English
Description
"This is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me...I have written as an author of novels, taking on matters that are important to me and that-if I have the will and the time-I'd like to develop within real narrative mechanisms."
With these words, Elena Ferrante bid farewell to her yearlong collaboration with the Guardian newspaper. For a full year, she wrote weekly articles, the subjects of which had been suggested by Guardian...
Author
Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
Lila has married Stefano and rapidly discovers that he is not what he once seemed. Elena, meanwhile, continues her studies and ventures further out into the world beyond the poor neighborhood in which she grew up. Marriage seems to have imprisoned Lila and the pressure to excel weighs heavily on Elena, but their complex, evolving bond proves resilient in the face of adversity and uncertainty. The political upheavals and evolving social mores in Italy...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Quinta edición.
Language
English
Description
Sigue las vivencias de las protagonistas de la saga Dos mujeres: una historia de amistad que recorre la segunda parte del siglo XX Érase una vez dos niñas, Elena y Lila, que nacieron en 1944 en un barrio pobre de la ciudad de Nápoles, y desde entonces su historia ha sido el hilo conductor de esta espléndida saga napolitana que ahora llega a su tercera entrega. Lila se casó muy joven con el hombre más adinerado del barrio y poco tardó en dejarlo....
15) Un mal de nombre
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Primera edición en Estados Unidos.
Language
Español
16) La hija oscura
Author
Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
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.
17) In the Margins
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER
A BEST BOOK OF 2022 (Air Mail)
Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.
In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as “an oracle among authors.” Here, in these four crisp essays, Ferrante
...18) Troubling Love
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Following her mother's untimely and unexplained drowning, which was preceded by a series of strange phone calls, forty-five-year-old Delia leaves Rome and embarks on a voyage of discovery through the beguiling yet often hostile streets of her native Naples. She is searching for the truth about her family and the men in her mother's life, past and present, including an abusive husband. What she discovers will be more unsettling than she imagines, but...