Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta. L’amica geniale. Vol. 3

by Ferrante, Elena

Elena and Lila, the two friends whose story readers have come to know through My Brilliant Friend and The Story of a New Name, have grown into women. They did so very early on: Lila married at sixteen, has a young son, has left her husband and a life of comfort, and now works as a factory worker in extremely harsh conditions; Elena left the neighbourhood, studied at the Normale in Pisa and published a successful novel that opened the doors to a wealthy and cultured world for her. Both have tried to break through the barriers that sought to confine them to a fate of poverty, ignorance and submission. Now they navigate, at the breakneck pace to which Elena Ferrante has accustomed us, the vast open sea of the 1970s – a landscape of hopes and uncertainties, of tensions and challenges hitherto unthinkable – always bound together by an extremely strong, ambivalent bond, at times hidden beneath the surface, at times resurfacing in violent outbursts or in encounters that open up unexpected perspectives.

Publishing house E/O
Year of publication 2013
Number of pages 382
ISBN 9788866324119
Foreign Rights emanuelaanechoum@edizionieo.it
Ebook disponibile
Price 22.50

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).