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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.

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.

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. 

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.

Lila è scomparsa. Esagerata, come sempre, ha cancellato ogni traccia. Ed Elena, l'amica di tutta la vita, inizia a raccontare la storia del legame viscerale che le ha unite per sei decenni. Tra inconfessata rivalità e profondo affidamento, la ragazzina geniale e ribelle e l'amica studiosa attraversano gli anni dell'adolescenza, sullo sfondo di un rione della Napoli anni Cinquanta ritratta nella sua cruda epicità. Prima parte della tetralogia "L'amica geniale".

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 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.

Der vierte und letzte Band der Neapolitanischen Saga: Elena Ferrante erzählt hier das Leben der beiden inzwischen 30-jährigen Freundinnen Lila und Elena bis in die Gegenwart. Elena, die erfolgreiche Schriftstellerin, verlässt ihren Mann und kehrt in ihre Heimatstadt Neapel zurück. Selbstzweifel quälen sie, weil sie Arbeits- und Familienleben kaum vereinbaren kann. Ihrer brillanten Freundin Lila gelingen in Neapel als Unternehmerin erste Erfolge, doch die kommen sie teuer zu stehen.

Con Napoli i conti non sono mai chiusi ed Elena, scrittrice ormai affermata, torna a vivere nella città da cui era fuggita. Qui ritrova Lila, diventata imprenditrice informatica, e la loro amicizia torna quella di un tempo, linfa vitale e pungolo feroce.

Carico di speranze e tensioni, arriva il vento degli anni Settanta che ogni cosa scompagina. Elena, laureata alla Normale di Pisa, pubblica un fortunato romanzo che segna il suo ingresso nell'ambiente colto e intellettuale. Lila, lasciato il marito, si ammazza di lavoro in una fabbrica di salumi alla periferia di Napoli. Anche se lontane, le due amiche nelle loro battaglie quotidiane continuano a specchiarsi l'una nell'altra, unite da un legame forte e ambivalente.

Sullo sfondo che prelude ai grandi cambiamenti degli anni Sessanta, Lila ed Elena si affacciano al mondo condividendo il desiderio di sfuggire al loro destino di ragazze cresciute nel rione napoletano.

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.

Il bel viso della bambina Giovanna si è trasformato, sta diventando quello di una brutta adolescente. Ma è proprio così? E in quale specchio bisogna guardare per ritrovarsi e salvarsi? La ricerca di un nuovo volto oscilla tra due Napoli consanguinee che però si temono e si detestano: la Napoli di sopra, che s'è attribuita una maschera fine, e quella di sotto, che si finge smodata, triviale. Giovanna oscilla tra alto e basso, in una città che pare non offrire né risposte né scampo.

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.

Elena und Lila, die Mädchen aus "Meine geniale Freundin" und "Die Geschichte eines neuen Namens", sind inzwischen 22 Jahre. Lila, die schon mit 16 heiratete, verlässt ihren Mann, kämpft mit den Problemen einer alleinerziehenden Mutter und versucht sich als Fabrikarbeiterin über Wasser zu halten. Für Elena, die Neapel verließ, öffnen sich neue Türen zur Welt der Wohlsituierten und Intellektuellen. Wir begleiten die Freundinnen durch die Jahre 1968 bis 1976.

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).

Hörbuchpreisträgerin Eva Mattes, "eine Meisterin des Vorlesens", interpretiert das Frühwerk der Bestsellerautorin Elena Ferrante ("Die Neapolitanische Saga"). 15 Jahre lang hat Olga die eigenen Wünsche zugunsten ihres Mannes und der Kinder hintangestellt. Dann zerbricht ihre Ehe. Wortgewaltig schildert Elena Ferrante, wie Olga ihr Leben mehr und mehr entgleitet, sie sich in Wahnvorstellungen hineinsteigert und dabei beinahe den Bezug zur Realität verliert. Aber auch, wie Olga in sich eine ungeahnte Kraft entdeckt.

Das Erfolgsduo: Eva Mattes und Elena Ferrante. "Ich bin tot, aber es geht mir gut." Die 47jährige Anglistikprofessorin Leda, eine moderne, selbstbewusste Frau, fährt allein an die süditalienische Küste in den Urlaub. Doch als Leda dort der jungen Nina und ihrer dreijährigen Tochter Elena begegnet, verdüstert sich die Ferienidylle: Das fremde Familienglück weckt in Leda verdrängte Erinnerungen und die sonst so vernünftige Frau lässt sich zu einer unbegreiflichen Tat hinreißen.

Nicht mehr zu trennen: Eva Mattes liest Elena Ferrante - "Meine Mutter ertrank in der Nacht des 23. Mai." So beginnt Delia ihre Erzählung darüber, wie sie herauszufinden versucht, weshalb ihre Mutter ums Leben kam. Dafür muss Delia in Neapel tief in die Vergangenheit ihrer Familie eintauchen. Hat ihr gewalttätiger Vater, den die Mutter schon vor Jahren verlassen hat, mit dem Tod zu tun? Oder der Liebhaber der Mutter aus früheren Tagen? Je klarer sich Delia an das Leben ihrer Mutter erinnert, um so deutlicher wird, dass alles anders ist, als sie dachte.