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Author
Series
Neapolitan novels volume 2
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
471 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The two protagonists, Lila and Elena, are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed friendship at the center of their emotional...
Author
Series
Neapolitan novels volume 3
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In this third volume in the series, Elena and Lina have become women. Lina married at sixteen and has a young son; she's left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena's 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.
Author
Series
Neapolitan volume 1
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
331 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. As they grow, as their paths repeatedly diverge and converge, Elena and Lila remain best friends whose respective destinies are reflected and refracted in the other. They are likewise the embodiments of a nation undergoing momentous change. Through...
Author
Series
Neapolitan novels volume 4
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
473 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
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