Status
Available
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Publication
New York, N.Y. : Europa Editions, [2015]
Description
The second book, following last year's My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists 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 lives, the two girls mature into women, paying the cruel price that this passage exacts.
Media reviews
Every so often you encounter an author so unusual it takes a while to make sense of her voice. The challenge is greater still when this writer’s freshness has nothing to do with fashion, when it’s imbued with the most haunting music of all, the echoes of literary history. Elena Ferrante is this
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rare bird: so deliberate in building up her story that you almost give up on it, so gifted that by the end she has you in tears. Show Less
Awards
Dublin Literary Award (Longlist — 2015)
Best Translated Book Award (Shortlist — 2014)
Boston Globe Best Book (Fiction — 2013)
San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year (Fiction/Poetry — 2013)
Los Angeles Public Library Best of the Year (Fiction — 2013)
Language
Original language
Italian
Original publication date
2012 (1e édition originale italienne)
2016-01-07 (1e traduction et édition française, Du monde entier, Gallimard)
2017-01-03 (Réédition française, Folio, Gallimard)
Physical description
471 p.; 21 inches
ISBN
9781609451349