Elena Ferrante

Neopolitan

1 - My Brilliant Friend (Aug-2012)
2 - The Story of a New Name (Aug-2013)
3 - Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Aug-2014)
4 - The Story of the Lost Child (Aug-2015)

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  The Days of Abandonment
  

  • Sep-2005
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  From the New York Times�"bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, this novel of a deserted wife’s descent into despair -- and rage -- is “a masterpiece” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).The Days of Abandonment is the gripping story of an Italian ...

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  Troubling Love
  

  • Sep-2006
  • / Literary
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  A woman goes home to Naples after her mother’s mysterious death in a “tour de force” by the New York Times�"bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend (Seattle Times).   Following her mother’s untimely and unexplained drowning, which was...

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  The Lost Daughter
  

  • Mar-2008
  • / Literary
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  Now a major motion picture directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Paul Mescal, and Peter SarsgaardAnother penetrating Neapolitan story from New York Times�"bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend&#...

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  L'amica geniale
  

  • Nov-2011
  • / General Fiction
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  Fragments
  

  • Aug-2012
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  From the author of My Brilliant FriendThis book invites readers into Elena Ferrante’s workshop. It offers a glimpse into the drawers of her writing desk, those drawers from which emerged her three early standalone novels and the four installment...

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  My Brilliant Friend
  

  • Aug-2012
  • / General Fiction
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  Neopolitan - 1
  

  Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times�"bestselling “enduring masterpiece” about a lifelong friendship between two women from Naples (The Atlantic).   Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outsk...

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  My Brilliant Friend, Book One: Childhood, Adolescence
  

  • Oct-2012
  • / General Fiction
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  Now an HBO series.

  Book one in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted family epic by Italy’s most beloved and acclaimed writer, Elena Ferrant...

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  The Story of a New Name
  

  • Aug-2013
  • / General Fiction
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  Neopolitan - 2
  

  A novel in the bestselling quartet about two very different women and their complex friendship: “Everyone should read anything with Ferrante’s name on it” (The Boston Globe).   The follow-up to My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name ...

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  Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
  

  • Aug-2014
  • / Literary
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  Neopolitan - 3
  

  Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by “one of the great novelists of our time” (The New York Times).   In the third book in the New York Times�"bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO...

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  Storia della bambina perduta
  

  • Nov-2014
  • / General Fiction
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  The Story of the Lost Child
  

  • Aug-2015
  • / General Fiction
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  Neopolitan - 4
  

  The “stunning conclusion” to the bestselling saga of the fierce lifelong bond between two women, from a gritty Naples childhood through old age (Publishers Weekly, starred review).  The Story of the Lost Child concludes the dazzling saga of ...

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  The Beach at Night
  

  • Nov-2016
  • / General Fiction
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  A “beautifully written” dark fable from a doll’s point of view -- by the New York Times�"bestselling author of The Lost Daughter and the Neapolitan Novels (The Washington Post).  One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year.   Readers of El...

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  Incidental Inventions
  

  • Nov-2019
  • / General Fiction
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  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 preoccupat...

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  The Lying Life of Adults
  

  • Sep-2020
  • / Literary
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  The New York Times�"bestseller set in a divided Naples -- now a Netflix original series -- from the acclaimed author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.A BEST BOOK OF 2020The Washington Post·O, The Oprah Magazine·TIME Magazine·NPR·Peop...

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