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Lifelong friendship saga in tumultuous Naples.

If you're looking to dive into a richly complex world of friendship that spans decades, "The Story of the Lost Child" might just be your next page-turner. Elena Ferrante masterfully concludes her Neapolitan novel series with a poignant exploration of the intricate dynamics between two women, their personal growth and struggles, set against the changing tides of their city, Naples. This book offers a gratifying closure to an unforgettable story of love, ambition, and the bonds that shape us.

  • BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2016)
  • Premio Strega Nominee (2015)
  • Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for International Book (2016)
  • International Booker Prize Nominee (2016)
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ISBN: 9781609452865
Publisher: Europa Editions
Date of Publication: 2015-09-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.45
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Nothing quite like this has ever been published before, proclaimed The Guardian about the Neapolitan novels in 2014. Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, Elena Ferrante tells the story of a lifelong friendship between two women with unmatched honesty and brilliance. The Story of the Lost Child is the concluding volume in the dazzling saga of two women — the brilliant, bookish Elena, and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults, with husbands, lovers, aging parents, and children. Their friendship has been the gravitational center of their lives. Both women fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up — a prison of conformity, violence, and inviolable taboos. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books. In this final novel she has returned to Naples, drawn back as if responding to the city's obscure magnetism. Lila, on the other hand, could never free herself from the city of her birth. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect the neighborhood. Proximity to the world she has always rejected only brings her role as its unacknowledged leader into relief. For Lila is unstoppable, unmanageable, unforgettable. The four volumes in this series constitute
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Lifelong friendship saga in tumultuous Naples.

If you're looking to dive into a richly complex world of friendship that spans decades, "The Story of the Lost Child" might just be your next page-turner. Elena Ferrante masterfully concludes her Neapolitan novel series with a poignant exploration of the intricate dynamics between two women, their personal growth and struggles, set against the changing tides of their city, Naples. This book offers a gratifying closure to an unforgettable story of love, ambition, and the bonds that shape us.

  • BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2016)
  • Premio Strega Nominee (2015)
  • Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for International Book (2016)
  • International Booker Prize Nominee (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.