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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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

Lumea interioară a Giovannei se prăbușește când își aude tatăl spunând că fața ei își pierde drăgălășenia și începe să semene cu cea a disprețuitei mătuși Vittoria. Viața ei devine o căutare chinuitoare a oglinzii în care să se poată vedea cu adevărat. Giovanna se caută pe sine în două orașe înrudite ce se urăsc reciproc: orașul Napoli al înălțimilor și al rafinamentului și același oraș, dar al adâncurilor, un loc al excesului și al vulgarității. 

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).

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".

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.

 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.

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.

Povestea celor două prietene, Lila şi Elena, continuă. Acum sunt două tinere ale căror drumuri se despart dramatic. Pe când Elena preferă să-şi continue studiile, Lila se mărită, obținând astfel o condiție socială şi financiară superioară originilor sale modeste, dar rămânând prizonieră într-o căsnicie nefericită. În ciuda căilor diferite pe care au luat-o viețile lor, legătura dintre Lila şi Elena rămâne complexă şi intensă, iar sentimentele fiecăreia oscilează, pe rând, între nepăsare, dispreț şi iubire reciprocă profundă.

Společný svět obou dívek se po svatbě Lily rozdělil. Provdaná kamarádka vzhledem ke svému rodinnému stavu zažívá úplně jiné starosti, než pilná studentka Elena. Nevybouřené mládí obou dívek je žene do nových dobrodružství a ta nejsou bez následků. Těhotná Lila opouští manžela s Ninem, kterého ale bezmezně miluje i Elena. Zašmodrchané vztahy se rozhodne Elena vyřešit odchodem na univerzitu v Pise, kterou vystuduje s červeným diplomem a pozná tam i svého budoucího manžela Pietra.

V třetím pokračování příběhu Eleny Grecové a Lily Cerrullové sledujeme, jak se z dospívajících dívek staly mladé ženy a vypadá to, že se jejich cesty definitivně rozcházejí. Elena se stěhuje s manželem do Florencie, kde chce budovat spisovatelskou kariéru. Dokáže dát svému životu náboj a směr, aniž by jí Lila byla na blízku? Ta totiž zůstává v bídě neapolského předměstí. Lze přátelství udržovat jen „po telefonu“, nebo je lepší pouto utnout?

Elena opustila manžela, aby žila s Ninem Sarratorem, kterého si oblíbily i její dvě dcery. Z bouřlivého vztahu se zrodí dcera Immacolata a ve stejné době porodí Lila Enzovi dceru Nunzii. Děvčátka vyrůstají skoro jako sestry a z rodiny Eleny i Lily se stane jeden velký a impulzivní klan. Jenže štěstí se pomalu zakaluje, aby vyvrcholilo tragickou událostí v životě Lily, která znovu vystaví přátelství obou kamarádek těžké zkoušce. Itálie se proměňuje, stejně tak i Neapol a život obou hrdinek se chýlí ke konci. A na konci přichází i zúčtování.