The Story of the Lost Child - Neapolitan Quartet

Marc Notes: Translated from the Italian.; The final book in a dazzling saga of two women - the brilliant Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Life's discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses suffered. But, throughout it all, their friendship remains the gravitational centre of their lives. Biographical Note: Elena Ferrante was born in Naples. She is the author of "The Days of Abandonment "(Europa, 2005), "Troubling Love "(Europa, 2007), and "The Lost Daughter "(Europa, 2009). Her Neapolitan novels include "My Brilliant Friend," "The Story of a New Name," "Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay," and the foruth and final book in the series, "The Story of the Lost Child."Review Quotes: Listed as one of "Publisher Weekly's""Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2015" Included as one of 30 blockbuster novels to look out for this fall by"Entertainment Weekly" One of modern fiction s richest portraits of a friendship. John Powers, "Fresh Air, NPR" "" The Neapolitan Novels tell a single story with the possessive force of an origin myth. Megan O Grady, "Vogue" "" Elena Ferrante is one of the great novelists of our time This is a new version of the way we live now one we need, one told brilliantly, by a woman. Roxana Robinson, "The New York Times Book Review" This stunning conclusion further solidifies the Neapolitan novels as Ferrante's masterpiece. "Publishers Weekly "(starred review) Ferrante has created a mythic portrait of a female friendship in the chthonian world of postwar Naples. "Kirkus Reviews "(starred review) Word of mouth launched this series, glowing reviews helped, and, eventually, a publishing phenomenon was born. The series conclusion is a genuine literary event. "Booklist" (starred review) In the fourth and final of the reclusive global publishing sensation s Neapolitan novels, we return to Naples and to the tumultuous friendship of Lila Cerullo and Elena Greco. "The Millions""Publisher Marketing: Nothing quite like this has ever been published before, proclaimed "The Guardian" newspaper about the Neapolitan Novels in 2014. "Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay," the third book in the series, was an international best seller and a "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year. Its author was dubbed one of the great novelists of our time by the "New York Times Book Review." This fourth and final installment in the series raises the bar even higher and indeed confirms Elena Ferrante as one of the world s best living storytellers. Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila. In this book, both are adults; life s great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women s friendship, examined in its every detail over the course of four books, remains the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once 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. But now, she has returned to Naples to be with the man she has always loved. Lila, on the other hand, never succeeded in freeing herself from Naples. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect her neighborhood. Yet somehow this proximity to a world she has always rejected only brings her role as unacknowledged leader of that world into relief. For Lila is unstoppable, unmanageable, unforgettable! Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, this story of a lifelong friendship is told with unmatched honesty. Lila and Elena clash, drift apart, reconcile, and clash again, in the process revealing new facets of their friendship. The four volumes in this series constitute a long remarkable story that readers will return to again and again, and, like Elena and Lila themselves, every return will bring with it new discoveries. Four starred reviews for Book 3 in the series14 best-of-the-year appearances for Book 3" Review Citations:

Publishers Weekly 06/01/2015 (EAN 9781609452865, Paperback) - *Starred Review

Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2015 (EAN 9781609452865, Paperback) - *Starred Review

Publishers Weekly 06/15/2015 pg. 57 (EAN 9781609452865, Paperback) - *Starred Review

Entertainment Weekly 08/14/2015 pg. 64 (EAN 9781609452865, Paperback)

Booklist 07/01/2015 pg. 33 (EAN 9781609452865, Paperback) - *Starred Review

Contributor Bio:  Ferrante, Elena Elena Ferrante, author of "The Days of Abandonment", "Troubling Love", and "My Brilliant Friend", among others, is one of Italy s most important and acclaimed contemporary writers. Her true identity is unknown. Contributor Bio:  Goldstein, Ann Ann Goldstein, the translator of all of Elena Ferrante s novels, is an editor at The New Yorker and a recipient of a PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship.