Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante (English)

Description: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by "one of the great novelists of our time" ( The New York Times ). In the third book in the New York Times -bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend , Elena and Lila have grown into womanhood. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance, and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up for women during the 1970s. And yet, they are still very much bound to each other in a book that "shows off Ferrantes strong storytelling ability and will leave readers eager for the final volume of the series" ( Library Journal ). "One of modern fictions richest portraits of a friendship." -- NPR LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Notes A 3rd novel in the Neapolitan series from the popular Italian author, translated by Ann Goldstein. Following on from My Brilliant Friend and The Story Of A New Name, it follows Elena and Lila as they forge through adult life. Author Biography Elena Ferrante is one of Italys most important and acclaimed contemporary writers, author of The Days of Abandonment and Troubling Love. Her true identity is unknown. Long Description Set in the late 1960s and the 1970s, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay continues the story of the feisty and rebellious Lina and her lifelong friend, the brilliant and bookish Elena. Lina, after separating from her husband, is living with her young son in a new neighborhood of Naples and working at a local factory. Elena has left Naples, earned a degree from an elite college, and published a novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned and fascinating interlocutors. The era, with its dramatic changes in sexual politics and social costumes, with its seemingly limitless number of new possibilities, is rendered with breathtaking vigor. This third Neapolitan Novel is not only a moving story of friendship but also a searing portrait of a rapidly changing world. Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan Novels, Elena Ferrantes fame as one of todays most compelling, insightful, and stylish authors has grown. She has gained admirers among authors, artists, and critics. But her most resounding success has undoubtedly been with readers, who have discovered in Ferrante a writer who speaks with great power and beauty of the mysteries of belonging, human relationships, love, family, and friendship. Review Quote "Reading Ferrante reminded me of that child-like excitement when you cant look up from the page, when your eyes seem to be popping from your head, when you think: I didnt know books could do this!"-Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge "[Ferrantes Neapolitan Novels] dont merely offer a teeming vision of working-class Naples, with its cobblers and professors, communists and mobbed-up businessmen, womanizing poets and downtrodden wives; they present one of modern fictions richest portraits of a friendship."-John Powers, Fresh Air, NPR "Elena Ferrantes THE STORY OF A NEW NAME, book two in her Naples series. Two words. Read it."-Ann Hood, author of The Obituary Writer "No one has a voice quite like Ferrantes. Her gritty, ruthlessly frank novels roar off the page with a barbed fury, like an attack that is also a defense…Imagine if Jane Austen got angry and youll have some idea of how explosive these works are."-John Freeman "Ferrantes freshness has nothing to do with fashion…it is imbued with the most haunting music of all, the echoes of literary history."- The New York Times Book Review Details ISBN160945233X Author Elena Ferrante Year 2014 ISBN-10 160945233X ISBN-13 9781609452339 Media Book Publisher Europa Editions Pages 424 Short Title THOSE WHO LEAVE & THOSE WHO ST Language English Translator Ann Goldstein DEWEY 853.92 Publication Date 2014-09-02 Series Neapolitan Novels Series Number 3 Audience General/Trade UK Release Date 2014-09-18 Imprint Europa Editions Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2014-09-18 NZ Release Date 2014-09-18 US Release Date 2014-09-18 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:86439570;

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