Storia del nuovo cognome. L’amica geniale. Vol. 2

by Ferrante, Elena

“I realised that I had come all that way full of pride, and I realised that – in good faith, of course, and with affection – I had made the whole journey mainly to show her what she had lost and what I had gained. She had, of course, realised this from the moment I appeared before her, and now she was reacting by explaining to me, in effect, that I had won nothing, that there was nothing in the world to be won, that her life was full of adventures just as varied and reckless as mine, and that time simply slipped away without any meaning, and that the only joy was seeing each other every now and then to hear the mad sound of one’s mind echoing within the mad sound of the other’s mind’. Here is The Story of a New Name, the second novel in the My Brilliant Friend series. You’ll immediately recognise Lila and Elena, their love-hate relationship, and the inextricable intertwining of dependence and the desire for self-assertion.

Publishing house E/O
Year of publication 2012
Number of pages 480
ISBN 9788866321811
Foreign Rights emanuelaanechoum@edizionieo.it
Ebook disponibile
Price 22.00

Ferrante, Elena

Elena Ferrante is the author of L’amore molesto (Troubling Love) from which Mario Martone adapted the film of the same name. Roberto Faenza’s film was adapted from her subsequent novel, I giorni dell’abbandono (The Days of Abandonment). In 2011, the first part of L’amica geniale (My Brilliant Friend) was published, followed in 2012 by the second, Storia del nuovo nome (The Story of a New Name);) in 2013 by the third, Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta (Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay); and in 2014 by the fourth and final instalment, Storia della bambina perduta (The Story of the Lost Child).