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A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila, who represent the story of a nation and the nature of friendship.

In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom were first introduced in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts 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.

Giovanna’s pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, is looking more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Will she turn out like her despised Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father have spent their whole lives avoiding and deriding? There must be a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. 

Here is the dazzling saga of two women: the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults; many of life's great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship has remained 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.

In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as “an oracle among authors”. Here, in these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. 

 Consisting of over 20 years of letters, essays, reflections, and interviews, Frantumaglia is a unique depiction of an author who embodies a consummate passion for writing. Ferrante answers many of her listeners’ questions. She addresses her choice to stand aside and let her books live autonomous lives.

 Celina is having a terrible night, one full of jealousy for the new kitten, Minù; feelings of abandonment and sadness; misadventures at the hands of the beach attendant; and dark dreams. But she will be happily found by Mati, her child, once the sun rises. 

"Cròniques del mar d’amor" és l'audiollibre que aplega la trilogia d’Elena Ferrante que ha dut l’autora italiana a l’èxit internacional. El primer dels tres volums, "L’amor que molesta" és un thriller domèstic que analitza amb crueltat i passió la relació entre una mare i una filla, i com aquesta última intenta transformar els seus turments familiars.

Leda è un'insegnante, divorziata da tempo, tutta dedita alle figlie e al lavoro. Ma le due ragazze partono per raggiungere il padre in Canada. Leda si sente come liberata e la vita le diventa più leggera. Decide di prendersi una vacanza al mare in un paesino del sud. Ma, dopo i primi giorni quieti e concentrati, l'incontro con alcuni personaggi di una famiglia poco rassicurante scatena una serie di eventi allarmanti.  

The Story of a New Name follows Elena Ferrante's critically acclaimed My Brilliant Friend, featuring Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their 20s, and marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile Elena continues her journey of self-discovery.

From one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, The Neapolitan Novels is an exploration of the friendship between Lila and Lena, two bright young girls who grew up in the tough, rough streets of postwar Naples. This is no normal friendship; it's a friendship that loves, hurts, supports and destroys - and yet it is one that lasts a lifetime. These four full-cast BBC adaptations bring the streets of Naples vividly to life.

"La filla fosca" narra la història de la Leda, una professora universitària divorciada fa anys que viu completament dedicada a la feina i a les filles. Quan aquestes marxen a viure lluny amb el seu pare, la Leda es veu sorpresa per l’alliberament que sent i decideix anar-se’n de vacances a un poblet de la costa. En aquest context i pàgina a pàgina, l’Elena Ferrante construeix un retrat exquisit d’una dona obstinada a la qual l’assalten tot de preguntes que la faran reflexionar sobre la maternitat i el seu origen.

L’Olga és una dona feliç i satisfeta amb la seva vida familiar que es veu empesa a una davallada personal a la seva part més fosca i devastadora després que el seu marit l’abandoni de manera sobtada i la deixa amb les dues filles petites de la parella i el gos. Atrapada a les quatre parets del seu pis de Torí haurà de fer front als fantasmes de la seva infantesa i a la potencial pèrdua de la seva identitat pròpia.

An IndiBound best seller, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its Italian public when first published. It is the gripping story of a woman's descent into devastating emptiness after being abandoned by her husband, with two young children to care for. When she finds herself literally trapped within the four walls of their high-rise apartment, she is forced to confront her ghosts, the potential loss of her own identity, and the possibility that life may never return to normal.

Leda, a middle-aged divorcee, is alone for the first time in years when her daughters leave home to live with their father. Her initial, unexpected sense of liberty turns to ferocious introspection following a seemingly trivial occurrence. Throughout the novel, Ferrante's language is as finely tuned and intense as ever, and she treats her theme with a fierce, candid tenacity.

La relació entre la Delia i la seva mare, l’Amalia, era cruel i passional. La mort sospitosa de la mare el dia de l’aniversari de la Delia la porta a recórrer la seva terra napolitana per intentar esbrinar què va passar, amb qui estava i qui era en realitat la seva mare. La seva investigació no dona treva i a "L’amor que molesta" intenta transformar una quotidianitat familiar turmentada en un thriller domèstic que ens deixa sense alè.

Following her mother's untimely and mysterious death, Delia embarks on a voyage of discovery through the streets of her native Naples searching for the truth about her family. A series of mysterious telephone calls leads her to compelling and disturbing revelations about her mother's final days. A story about mothers and daughters and the complicated knot of lies and emotions that binds them, it is a must-listen.

Elena Ferrante is the best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend, now an HBO original series. Collected here for the first time are the seeds of future novels, the timely reflections of this internationally beloved storyteller, the abiding preoccupations of a writer who has been called “one of the great novelists of our time” (New York Times).

Neapel in den Neunzigerjahren: Die dreizehnjährige Giovanna ist Vorzeigetochter kultivierter Mittelschichtseltern und eine strebsame Schülerin. Doch plötzlich verändert sich alles, ihr Körper, ihre Stimmung, ihre schulische Leistung und ihr Verhältnis zu den Eltern. Zufällig stößt Giovanna auf ein großes Tabu: die Vergangenheit ihres Vaters, der aus einem ganz anderen Neapel stammt, einem leidenschaftlichen, vulgären Neapel. Die Geheimnisse, denen sie auf die Spur kommt, verstören Giovanna. Wem kann sie überhaupt noch trauen? Was soll ihr Halt geben?

Bearbeiter und Regisseur Martin Heindel lässt in einem opulenten Hörspiel das Neapel der 1950er Jahre und all die eigensinnigen, lebensnahen Figuren aus Elena Ferrantes Epos als eindrückliches Klangerlebnis wiedererstehen. Vor allem Elena und Lila, die zwei Mädchen, die unterschiedlicher kaum sein könnten, und die doch eine unzertrennliche, lebenslange Freundschaft verbindet. Bis die eine spurlos verschwindet und die andere zurückblickt, um hinter das Geheimnis dieses Verschwindens zu kommen.