Descriere
Set in the late 1960s and the 1970s, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay continues the story of the feisty and rebellious Lina and her lifelong friend, the brilliant and bookish Elena. Lina, after separating from her husband, is living with her young son in a new neighborhood of Naples and working at a local factory. Elena has left Naples, earned a degree from an elite college, and published a novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned and fascinating interlocutors. The era, with its dramatic changes in sexual politics and social costumes, with its seemingly limitless number of new possibilities, is rendered with breathtaking vigor. This third Neapolitan Novel is not only a moving story of friendship but also a searing portrait of a rapidly changing world.
Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante’s fame as one of today’s most compelling, insightful, and stylish authors has grown. She has gained admirers among authors, artists, and critics. But her most resounding success has undoubtedly been with readers, who have discovered in Ferrante a writer who speaks with great power and beauty of the mysteries of belonging, human relationships, love, family, and friendship.
"Reading Ferrante reminded me of that child-like excitement when you can't look up from the page, when your eyes seem to be popping from your head, when you think: I didn't know books could do this!"--Elizabeth Strout, author of "Olive Kitteridge"
"[Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels] don't merely offer a teeming vision of working-class Naples, with its cobblers and professors, communists and mobbed-up businessmen, womanizing poets and downtrodden wives; they present one of modern fiction's richest portraits of a friendship."--John Powers, Fresh Air, "NPR"
"Elena Ferrante's THE STORY OF A NEW NAME, book two in her Naples series. Two words. Read it."--Ann Hood, author of "The Obituary Writer"
"No one has a voice quite like Ferrante's. Her gritty, ruthlessly frank novels roar off the page with a barbed fury, like an attack that is also a defense...Imagine if Jane Austen got angry and you'll have some idea of how explosive these works are."--John Freeman
"Ferrante's freshness has nothing to do with fashion...it is imbued with the most haunting music of all, the echoes of literary history."--"The New York Times Book Review"
Praise for Elena Ferrante and "The Neapolitan Novels"
"Everyone should read anything with Ferrante's name on it." --The Boston Globe
"Ferrante's novels are intensely, violently personal, and because of this they seem to dangle bristling key chains of confession before the unsuspecting reader." --James Wood, "The New Yorker"
"One of the more nuanced portraits of feminine friendship in recent memory." --Megan O'Grady, "Vogue"
"Amazing! "My Brilliant Friend" took my breath away. If I were president of the world I would make everyone read this book. It is so honest and right and opens up heart to so much. Reading Ferrante reminded me of that child-like excitement when you can't look up from the page, when your eyes seem to be popping from your head, when you think: I didn't know books could do this!" --Elizabeth Strout, author of "Olive Kitteridge"
"Elena Ferrante will blow you away." --Alice Sebold, author of "The Lovely Bones"
"Ferrante's emotional and carnal candor are so potent." --Janet Maslin, "The New York Times"
"I like the Italian writer, Elena Ferrante, a lot. I've been reading all her work and all about her." -- John Waters, actor and director
""Elena Ferrante tackles girlhood and friendship with amazing force."-- Gwenyth Paltrow
"Elena Ferrante may be the best contemporary novelist you've never heard of"-- "The Economist"
"[Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels] don't merely offer a teeming vision of working-class Naples, with its cobblers and professors, communists and mobbed-up businessmen, womanizing poets and downtrodden wives; they present one of modern fiction's richest portraits of a friendship." --John Powers, Fresh Air, "NPR"
"Ferrante's freshness has nothing to do with fashion...it is imbued with the most haunting music of all, the echoes of literary history." --"The New York Times Book Review"
"Elena Ferrante's THE STORY OF A NEW NAME, book two in --This text refers to the paperback edition.
