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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta

Middle Time

Elena Ferrante. Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

Buch

englisch

Ferrante, Elena (Verfasser/-in) DNB
Goldstein, Ann DNB

Neapolitan Novels

3

7. Aufl.

Europa Editions

New York

2015

418 p.

1-60945-233-X

978-1-60945-233-9

03

Neapel

In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women have attempted are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the nineteen-seventies. Yet they are still very much bound to each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.

Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.

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