Elena Ferrante Those Who Leave & Those Who Stay Paperback Book Multicolor

OVER 14M OF THE NEAPOLITAN QUARTET SOLD WORLDWIDENothing quite like this has ever been published before. The GuardianThis is high stakes, subversive literature. The Daily TelegraphWith the publication of her Neapolitan Novels, (Ferrante) has established herself as the foremost writer in Italyand the world. The Sunday TimesAn unconditional masterpiece . . . I was totally enthralled. Jhumpa LahiriAn extraordinary epic. Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesTo the uninitiated, Elena Ferrante is best described as Balzac meetsThe Sopranosand rewrites feminist theory. The TimesFerrantes writing seems to say something that hasnt been said before, in a way so compelling its readers forget where they are, abandon friends and disdain sleep. London Review of BooksStunning. An intense, forensic exploration of friendship. The Times Literary SupplementSet in the late 1960s and the 1970s, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay continues the story of the feisty and rebellious Lila and her lifelong friend, the brilliant and bookish Elena. Lila, after separating from her husband, is living with her young son in a new neighbourhood 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... Elena Ferrante Those Who Leave & Those Who Stay Paperback Book