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Popular fiction The Story of the Lost Child
- Price: £8.99
- ISBN: 9781787702691
- Availability: Out of stock - expected on 01/02/2021 if you order today
The Story of the Lost Child is the concluding volume in the dazzling saga of two women - told against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change. Lila and Lenù 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 neighbourhood 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 city’s obscure magnetism. Lila, on the other hand, could never free herself from the city of her birth. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect the neighbourhood. Proximity to the world she has always rejected only brings her role as its unacknowledged leader into relief. For Lila is unstoppable, unmanageable, and unforgettable. The four volumes in this series constitute a long remarkable story that readers will return to again and again, and each return will bring with it new revelations.
Title details
Series | Popular fiction | Title | The Story of the Lost Child |
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Subject | Italian | Language | English |
Market | Adolescent/Adult | Level | Fluent/native speakers |
Publication Date | August 2020 | Authors | Elena Ferrante |
Binding | Paperback | Pages | 400 |
Size(mm) | N/A | Weight (gms) | 322 |
ESB Code | 55976 | ISBN | 9781787702691 |
Inspection Copy | No | Delivery | Out of stock - expected on 01/02/2021 if you order today |
Price | £8.99 |
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