Книга: The Story of the Lost Child

“Nothing quite like this has ever been published before,” proclaimed "The Guardian" newspaper about the Neapolitan Novels in 2014. "Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay", the third book in the series, was an international best seller and a "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year. Its author was dubbed “one of the great novelists of our time” by the "New York Times Book Review". This fourth and final installment in the series raises the bar even higher and indeed confirms Elena Ferrante as one of the world’s best living storytellers. Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila. In this book, both are adults; 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-a prison of...