Elena Ferrante
23) Neznakomaia doch
Author
Series
Corpus) volume 583
Publisher
Corpus
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Russian
Description
"Leda, a 47-year-old divorced mother, is alone for the first time in years after her now adult daughters leave home to live with their father. Her initial, unexpected sense of liberty turns to ferocious introspection. She spends her summer vacation on a beach on the southern Italian coast watching a young mother and her little girl play. When the girl loses her doll, Leda commits a small crime that she can't explain even to herself." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The second book, following last year's My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Nothing quite like this has ever been published before," proclaimed The Guardian about the Neapolitan novels in 2014. Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, Elena Ferrante tells the story of a sixty-year friendship between the brilliant and bookish Elena and the fiery, rebellious Lila with unmatched honesty and brilliance. The four books in this novel cycle constitute a long,...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"HBO's four-season TV adaptation of My Brilliant Friend has enjoyed success with critics and viewers in the U.S.; the novel has been adapted for the stage and radio plays. Here, for the first time, it is brought to vivid life as a graphic novel by one of Italy's most beloved illustrators. For Ferrante fans, for those new to Ferrante, for readers of graphic novels, Chiara Lagani's and Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend: the graphic novel is a thrilling...