Research Catalog

Title

Those who leave and those who stay / by Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.

Author

Ferrante, Elena

Publication

New York : Europa Editions, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

Goldstein, Ann, 1949-

Description

418 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of our most compelling, insightful, and stylish contemporary authors has grown enormously. She has gained admirers among authors--Jhumpa Lahiri, Elizabeth Strout, Claire Messud, to name a few--and critics--James Wood, John Freeman, Eugenia Williamson, for example. 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. 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.

Series Statement

• Neapolitan novels ; book three
• Ferrante, Elena. Amica geniale. English ; 3.

Uniform Title

Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta. English

Alternative Title

Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta.

Subjects

• Female friendship
• Female friendship > Fiction
• Fiction
• Bildungsromans
• Domestic fiction
• Naples (Italy) > Fiction
• Italy > Naples

Genre/Form

• Domestic fiction.
• Fiction.
• Bildungsromans.

Note

• Translation of: Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta.
• "Middle time"--Title page.

Call Number

JFD 15-243

ISBN

• 9781609452339
• 160945233X

OCLC

870919836

Author

Ferrante, Elena, author.

Title

Those who leave and those who stay / by Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.

Imprint

New York : Europa Editions, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Neapolitan novels ; book three

Ferrante, Elena. Amica geniale. English ; 3.

Added Author

Goldstein, Ann, 1949- translator.

Research Call Number

JFD 15-243