Description |
418 pages ; 21 cm. |
Series |
Neapolitan novels ; book three |
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Ferrante, Elena.
Amica geniale English ; v. 03.
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Note |
Translation of: Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta. |
Summary |
In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom eaders first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts of 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 have attempted are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seem them living a life of mystery, ignorance and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the nineteen-seventies. Yet they are still very much bound to see each other by a strong, unbreakable bond. |
Subject |
Naples (Italy) -- Fiction.
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Female friendship -- Fiction.
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Added Author |
Goldstein, Ann, 1949- translator.
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ISBN |
160945233X |
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9781609452339 |
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