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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...
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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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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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Three exhilarating novellas--The Secret Dead, The Academy of Secrets, and A Christmas Requiem--follow the early adventures of young priest Giordano Bruno in the dramatic days of sixteenth century Italy. The Secret Dead: During the summer of 1566, a girl's body is found within the walls of a Neapolitan monastery. Novice monk Giordano Bruno has a habit of asking difficult questions, but this time his investigations may lose him his place in the Dominican...
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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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"'See Naples and die.' To Heddi those words ring true. There is nothing more heartbreakingly beautiful than this city built on Roman ruins and set against a sleeping volcano. Despite years of navigating the narrow, winding streets of Naples's Spanish Quarter, the city never fails to instill in her the pain of longing, a desire to belong. A place she wants to call home despite being l'americano or the American. For Heddi's group of university friends,...
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A riveting classic of European literature, this superb collection of fiction and reportage is set in Italy's most vibrant and turbulent metropolis--Naples--in the immediate aftermath of World War Two. These writings helped inspire Elena Ferrante's best-selling novels and she has expressed deep admiration for the author of this volume, originally edited in Italian by Italo Calvino. Goyaesque in its depiction of the widespread suffering and brutal desperation...
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A modest apartment in Via Gemito smelling of paint and turpentine. Its furniture pushed up against the wall to create a make-shift studio. Drying canvases moved from bed to floor each night. Federí, the father, a railway clerk, is convinced that he possesses great artistic promise. If it weren't for the family he must feed and the jealousy of his fellow Neapolitan artists, nothing would stop him from becoming a world-famous painter. Ambitious and...
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Mimì, doce años, gafas, labia de sabelotodo y obsesión por los cómics, los astronautas y Karate Kid, vive en un edificio de un barrio popular de Nápoles, donde su padre trabaja de portero. Se pasa el día en la calle, junto a su mejor amigo Sasà, un golfillo, o en el apartamento de un dormitorio que comparte con sus padres, su hermana adolescente y sus abuelos. En 1985, el año en que todo cambia, Mimì está practicando la transmisión del...
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Aurelio Zen mysteries volume 5
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A murder mystery presented as opera buffa. It features Aurelio Zen of the Naples police in a scheme to dissuade the daughters of a wealthy widow from marrying Mafia men. The operation leads to the discovery of a gang of terrorists, masquerading as garbage collectors. By the author of Dead Lagoon.
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Naples, March 1931: a bitter wind stalks the city streets, and murder lies at its chilled heart. As one of the world s greatest tenors, Maestro Vezzi, is found brutally murdered in his dressing room at Naples famous San Carlo Theatre, the enigmatic and aloof Commissario Ricciardi is called in to investigate. Arrogant and bad-tempered, Vezzi was hated by many, but with the livelihoods of the opera at stake, who would have committed this callous act?...
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