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Neapolitan novels volume 1
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The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. As they grow, as their paths repeatedly diverge and converge, Elena and Lila remain best friends whose respective destinies are reflected and refracted in the other. They are likewise the embodiments of a nation undergoing momentous change. Through...
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The second book, following last year's My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this...
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Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of our most compelling, insightful, and stylish contemporary authors has grown enormously. She has gained admirers among authors--Jhumpa Lahiri, Elizabeth Strout, Claire Messud, to name a few--and critics--James Wood, John Freeman, Eugenia Williamson, for example. But her most resounding success has undoubtedly been with readers, who have...
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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...
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"Giovanna's pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her 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 is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that...
6) About face
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Through the warm-hearted, perceptive, and principled Commissario Guido Brunetti, Donna Leon has brought us Venice in all its aspects. Now Leon returns to one of her signature subjects: the environment, which has reached a crisis in Italy. In Venice, with the polluted waters of the canals, the issue is significant. For Brunetti, it becomes so when an investigator from the Carabiniere, looking into the illegal hauling of garbage, asks for a favor. (Bestseller)...
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"Lila i Helena mają po szesnaście lat i obie czują, że znalazły się w ślepym zaułku. Lila dopiero wyszła za mąż, ale przyjęcie nazwiska męża wiąże się dla niej z utratą własnej tożsamości. Elena to wzorowa uczennica, ale właśnie podczas ślubu przyjaciółki odkrywa, że nie czuje się dobrze ani w dzielnicy, ani poza nią. Podczas burzliwej młodości dziewczęta gubią się i ponownie odnajdują. A wszystko w scenerii Neapolu,...
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Elena i Lila, przyjaciolki znane czytelnikom z Genialnej przyjaciolki i Historii nowego nazwiska, to mlode kobiety. Bardzo szybko musialy dorosnac. Lila wyszla za maz w wieku szesnastu lat, ma malego synka, porzucila meza i dostatnie zycie, pracuje w fabryce w bardzo ciezkich warunkach. Elena opuscila Neapol, ukonczyla studia w Pizie i wydala dobrze sprzedajaca sie ksiazke, ktora otworzyla jej drzwi do swiata ludzi zamoznych i wyksztalconych. Obie...
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Amica geniale volume 4
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"Elenę i Lilę łączy niełatwa więź oparta na miłości, nienawiści, zazdrości, dominacji i podległości. Wspólnie wychowywały się na przedmieściach Neapolu. Elena zdecydowała się opuścić rodzinne miasto, aby kontynuować edukację w Pizie. W trakcie studiów została poczytną pisarką, a potem żoną nobilitowanego wykładowcy i matką. Tymczasem Lila pozostała w rodzinnym mieście, wyszła za mąż w wieku szesnastu lat, urodziła...
10) The Italian girl
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Rosanna Menici is just eleven years old when she meets Roberto Rossini, the man who will change her life forever. In the years to come, their destinies are bound together by their extraordinary talents as opera singers and by their enduring but obsessive love for each other--a love that will ultimately affect the lives of all those closest to them. For, as Rosanna slowly discovers, their union is haunted by powerful secrets from the past.
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Historia paranzy Dzieciaków, nastolatków żyjących w drapieżnych czasach na ziemi zabójców i ich ofiar, w świecie, który niczego nie daje za darmo, zwłaszcza takim jak oni. Opowieść o chłopcach silnych swoim nienasyceniem, gniewem i okrucieństwem. Gotowych na drapieżne pocałunki, które pozostawiają smak krwi. Paranza Dzieciaków zdobyła władzę, ma pod kontrolą rynek narkotyków w Forcelli, ale nie potrafi sama utrzymać tego stanu...
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