Je ne suis pas nostalgique de notre enfance : elle était pleine de violence. C était la vie, un point c est tout : et nous grandissions avec l'obligation de la rendre difficile aux autres avant que les autres ne nous la rendent difficile.» Elena et Lila vivent dans un quartier pauvre de Naples à la fin des années cinquante. Bien qu elles soient douées pour les études, ce n est pas la voie qui leur est promise. Lila abandonne l école pour travailler dans l échoppe de cordonnier de son père. Elena, soutenue par son institutrice, ira au collège puis au lycée. Les chemins des deux amies se croisent et s éloignent, avec pour toile de fond une Naples sombre, en ébullition. Formidable voyage dans l Italie du boom économique, L amie prodigieuse est le portrait de deux héroïnes inoubliables qu Elena Ferrante traque avec passion et tendresse.

L'amie prodigieuse : Enfance, adolescence (French Edition)

ELENA FERRANTE

French and European Publications Inc

Si rien ne pouvait nous sauver, ni l'argent, ni le corps d'un homme, ni même les études, autant tout détruire immédiatement.» Le soir de son mariage, Lila, seize ans, comprend que son mari Stefano l'a trahie en s'associant aux frères Solara, les camorristes qu'elle déteste. De son côté, Elena, la narratrice, poursuit ses études au lycée. Quand l'été arrive, les deux amies partent pour Ischia. L'air de la mer doit aider Lila à prendre des forces afin de donner un fils à Stefano. L'amie prodigieuse, Le nouveau nom et Celle qui fuit et celle qui reste sont les trois premiers tomes de la saga d'Elena Ferrante.

L'amie prodigieuse, II : Le nouveau nom: Jeunesse (French Edition)

[Translated by Ann Goldstein]Best friends Lila and Elena are now in their twenties, and marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. These young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times while driving 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 sometimes cruel price that this passage exacts.

The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels, Book 2)

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

The Story of a New Name follows Elena Ferrante s critically acclaimed My Brilliant Friend, featuring Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties, and marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. These young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times while driving 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 sometimes cruel price that this passage exacts.

[Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein] [Read by Hillary Huber] The incredible story continues in book three of the critically acclaimed Neapolitan novels!In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts of marriage and now works as a laborer. Elena has earned her college degree and published a successful novel, which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the 1970s. Yet they are still very much bound to each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Neapolitan Novels, Book 3)

Literary

[Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein] [Read by Hillary Huber] The incredible story continues in book three of the critically acclaimed Neapolitan novels! In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts of marriage and now works as a laborer. Elena has earned her college degree and published a successful novel, which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the 1970s. Yet they are still very much bound to each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.

[Translated from the Italian Ann Goldstein][Read by Hillary Huber]A modern masterpiece from one of Italys most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generoushearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila, who represent the story of a nation and the nature of friendship.

My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, Book 1)

The Story of the Lost Child concludes the dazzling saga of two women—the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila—who first met amid the shambles of postwar Italy. 
In this book, life’s great discoveries have been made; its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, Elena and Lila’s friendship remains the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books. But now, she has returned to Naples to be with the man she has always loved. 
Lila, on the other hand, never succeeded in freeing herself from Naples. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect her neighborhood. Yet, somehow, this proximity to a world she has always rejected only brings her role as unacknowledged leader of that world into relief.

The Story of the Lost Child (Neapolitan Novels, Book 4)

Now an HBO series, book four in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one of today's most beloved and acclaimed writers, Elena Ferrante, “one of the great novelists of our time.” (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times) Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila. In this book, life’s great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women’s friendship, examined in its every detail over the course of four books, remains the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books. But now, she has returned to Naples to be with the man she has always loved. Lila, on the other hand, never succeeded in freeing herself from Naples. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect her neighborhood. Yet somehow this proximity to a world she has always rejected only brings her role as unacknowledged leader of that world into relief. Ferrante is one of the world’s great storytellers. With the Neapolitan quartet she has given her readers an abundant, generous, and masterfully plotted page-turner that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight readers for many generations to come.

The Story of the Lost Child: Neapolitan Novels, Book Four

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NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES, AND TIE-IN EDITION Broadcast from 19 November on Sky Atlantic, and also available on NowTV, the HBO-RAI 8-part series is the first of four that will adapt Elena Ferrante's acclaimed Neapolitan quartet. When the most important friend in her life disappears without trace, Elena Greco, an elderly woman living in a house crammed with books, switches on her PC and starts writing her own story, and that of Lila. She tells the tale of their friendship, which started at school in the 1950s. Set in a dangerous but fascinating Naples, it is just the start of a story spanning sixty years of life. A tale that attempts to unveil the mystery of Lila, Elena's brilliant, best friend, and her worst enemy. The HBO-RAI Fiction and TIMVISION series is produced by Wildside and Fandango, in co-production with Umedia. All the episodes are directed by Saverio Costanzo (whose credits include the film Hungry Hearts). The story and screenplays are by Elena Ferrante, Francesco Piccolo, Laura Paolucci and Saverio Costanzo. Paolo Sorrentino and Jennifer Schuur are the executive producers.

My Brilliant Friend (TV TIE-IN)

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L'amie prodigieuse : Enfance, adolescence (French Edition)

L'amie prodigieuse, II : Le nouveau nom: Jeunesse (French Edition)

The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels, Book 2)

The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels, Book 2)

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Neapolitan Novels, Book 3)

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Neapolitan Novels, Book 3)

My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, Book 1)

The Story of the Lost Child (Neapolitan Novels, Book 4)

The Story of the Lost Child: Neapolitan Novels, Book Four

My Brilliant Friend (TV TIE-IN)