OVER 14M OF THE NEAPOLITAN QUARTET SOLD WORLDWIDE
"Nothing quite like this has ever been published before.”—The Guardian
“This is high stakes, subversive literature.”—The Daily Telegraph
“With the publication of her Neapolitan Novels, (Ferrante) has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy—and the world.”—The Sunday Times
“An unconditional masterpiece . . . I was totally enthralled.”—Jhumpa Lahiri
“An extraordinary epic.”—The New York Times
“To the uninitiated, Elena Ferrante is best described as Balzac meets The Sopranos and rewrites feminist theory.”—The Times
“Ferrante’s writing seems to say something that hasn’t been said before, in a way so compelling its readers forget where they are, abandon friends and disdain sleep.”—London Review of Books
“Stunning. An intense, forensic exploration of friendship.”—The Times Literary Supplement
The Story of the Lost Child is the concluding volume in the dazzling saga of two women— the brilliant, bookish Elena, and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults, with husbands, lovers, aging parents, and children. Their friendship has been the gravitational center of their lives. Both women fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up—a prison of conformity, violence, and inviolable taboos. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books. In this final novel she has returned to Naples, drawn back as if responding to the ci
