The Story Of The Lost Child
Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein
Europa Editions
<p><i>Against the backdrop of a seductive and perilous Naples,&nbsp;<b>Elena Ferrante</b>&nbsp;delivers a searingly honest chronicle of a lifelong female friendship. Translated by&nbsp;<b>Ann Goldstein</b>.&nbsp;The fourth and final book of the internationally renowned Neapolitan novels.</i></p><p>The fourth volume in the dazzling saga of a friendship between two women: brilliant, bookish Elena and fiery, uncontainable Lila. Having moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books, Elena returns to her home city to be with the man she has always loved. Lila, on the other hand, never freed herself from Naples. And her entrepreneurial success only draws her into closer contact with the nepotism, criminal violence and inviolable taboos that infect her neighbourhood.<br></p><p><i>"Old romances; the tiny slights of a domineering mother; the status anxieties of growing up parochial: Ferrante has written a book that feels as rich and layered as life itself."</i>&nbsp; -&nbsp;<b>&nbsp;John Freeman, The Boston Globe</b></p><p><i>"Ferrante has moved into more overtly psychological territory. A portrait of the dynamic of a friendship has mutated into a weightier, more uncanny exploration of the antipathy of love, of our compulsion to create one another, over and over again."&nbsp;</i>&nbsp;-&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Alex Clark, The Guardian</b><br></p><p><b>Elena Ferrante</b>&nbsp;<i>was born in Naples. True to her belief that ‘books, once they are written, have no need of their authors’, Ferrante has stayed resolutely out of public view. She is the author of The Days of Abandonment, Troubling Love, and The Lost Daughter. Her Neapolitan novels include My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child. She is also the author of Frantumaglia, a collection of writings on reading, writing and absence.</i></p>