Elena Ferrante
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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...
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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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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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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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"Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter. In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as "an oracle among authors." Here, in these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. She writes about her influences, her struggles, and her formation as both a reader and a writer; she describes the perils of...
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From the New York Times–bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, this novel of a deserted wife’s descent into despair—and rage—is “a masterpiece” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
The Days of Abandonment is the gripping story of an Italian woman’s experiences after being suddenly left by her husband after fifteen years of marriage. With two young children to care...
The Days of Abandonment is the gripping story of an Italian woman’s experiences after being suddenly left by her husband after fifteen years of marriage. With two young children to care...
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Following her mother's untimely and mysterious death, Delia embarks on a voyage of discovery through the streets of her native Naples searching for the truth about her family. A series of mysterious telephone calls leads her to compelling and disturbing revelations about her mother's final days.
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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...
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Szescdziesiecioletnia Elena Greco dowiaduje sie, ze Lila, jej przyjaciólka z czasów dziecinstwa, zniknela bez sladu. Elena przypuszcza, ze przyjaciólka wprowadzila w zycie swoje odwieczne pragnienie znikniecia ze swiata, w którym zyla, usunawszy przedtem wszelkie slady swego istnienia. Chcac znalezc wytlumaczenie dla tego gestu, Elena postanawia opowiedziec niezwykla historie ich przyjazni. I tu rozpoczyna sie podróz w przeszlosc, która przeniesie...
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The “stunning conclusion” to the bestselling saga of the fierce lifelong bond between two women, from a gritty Naples childhood through old age (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The Story of the Lost Child concludes the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila, who first met amid the shambles of postwar Italy. In this book, life’s great discoveries have been made; its vagaries and losses...
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With these words, Elena Ferrante bid farewell to her year-long collaboration with the Guardian newspaper. For a full year, she wrote an article each week, the subjects of which had been suggested by Guardian editors, making the writing process a form of prolonged interlocution.
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"This book invites readers into Elena Ferrante's workshop. It offers a glimpse into the drawers of her writing desk, those drawers from which emerged her three early standalone novels and the four installments of My Brilliant Friend, known in English as the Neapolitan Quartet. Consisting of over twenty years of letters, essays, reflections, and interviews, it is a unique depiction of an author who embodies a consummate passion for writing. In these...
19) Obsesyjna miłość
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Obsesyjna miłość ‒ pierwsza książka Eleny Ferrante ‒ to jedna z najważniejszych i najbardziej oryginalnych współczesnych włoskich powieści, która ujawniła talent autorki.Zrealizowany w oparciu o książkę film w reżyserii Maria Martonego odniósł wielki sukces.Historia opowiada o relacjach Amalii i Delii, matki i córki, którym autorka przygląda się bezlitosnym choć pełnym pasji wzrokiem.Moja matka utonęła w moje urodziny,
...20) Córka
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La Stampa Leda is a divorced teacher of English literature. When her daughters go to Canada to live with their father, it may seem that a period of pain and melancholy awaits her. Meanwhile, the woman states with embarrassment that she feels free and her life becomes lighter. Leda decides to go on holiday to the sea, south of the country. The first few days pass her quietly, until the woman meets a brusque family, in the presence of which she feels...