![]() With this novel about the transition from childhood to adolescence to adulthood, Ferrante proves once again that she deserves her many accolades. Named one of 2016’s most influential people by Time Magazine and frequently touted as a future Nobel Prize winner, Elena Ferrante has become one of the world’s most read and beloved writers. She moves between both in search of the truth, but neither city seems to offer answers or escape. Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: a Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and a Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. ![]() Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. Giovanna’s pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. “There’s no doubt will be the literary event of the year.” ( Elle) ![]() ![]() A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter. ![]()
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