Elena Ferrante

"Giovanna¿́¿s pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities...

Continues the story of Lina and Elena as they push against boundaries in 1970s Italy, where Lina has left her husband and is working in a factory while taking care of her son and Elena has graduated college and published a novel.

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. Elena married,...

"She is among the greatest Italian authors of recent years."-Corriere della Sera

"Ferrante dissects the personal microcosm so well, and with awesome lucidity and precision shows us the meanderings of a woman's mind, the suffering that accompanies being abandoned, and the awful rumbling of time passing."-El Mundo

"Elena Ferrante has given us a startlingly beautiful novel of exceptional and bold strength."-Il Manifesto

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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 preoccupations of a writer who has been called "one of the great novelists of our time" (New York Times).

The story of a doll who experiences a range of human emotions when she is accidentally left behind at the beach.

A partir de la década de 1950 Elena y Lila crecen en Nápoles, Italia, lo que refleja dos aspectos diferentes de su nación. Beginning in the 1950s Elena and Lila grow up in Naples, Italy, mirroring two different aspects of their nation.

"Lying Adulthood is a gripping, psychologically subtle and accurate novel about the tough times of growing up. The main character is a teenage girl who has to learn many family secrets, which would be difficult for any adult to cope with. Betrayal of loved ones, hatred and malicious gossip, a jewel passing from person ot person, simultaneously resolving and causing conflict ... And a first love ... How difficult it is to be a teenager! How difficult...