Ann Goldstein
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
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"The ... 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"--Amazon.com.
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2014
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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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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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"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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Based on the true story of one of the most brutal crimes in recent Italian history, this hypnotic literary thriller recounts the murder of twenty-three-year-old Luca Varani at the hands of two "ordinary" young men from good families, taking us into the darkest corners of contemporary Rome and of the human soul.
10) A girl returned
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
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170 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Set against the stark, beautiful landscape of Abruzzo in central Italy, this is a compelling story about mothers and daughters, about responsibility, siblings, and caregiving. Without warning or explanation, an unnamed 13-year-old girl is sent away from the family she has always thought of as hers to live with her birth family : a large, chaotic assortment of individuals whom she has never met and who seem anything but welcoming. Thus begins a new...
11) Troubling love
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2006.
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139 pages ; 21 cm
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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.
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2016.
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384 pages ; 22 cm
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"In these pages Ferrante answers many of her readers? questions. She addresses her choice to stand aside and let her books live autonomous lives. She discusses her thoughts and concerns as her novels are being adapted into films. She talks about the challenge of finding concise answers to interview questions. She explains the joys and the struggles of writing, the anguish of composing a story only to discover that that story isn?t good enough. She...
13) An Iliad
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Knopf
Pub. Date
2006
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xi, 158 p. ; 22 cm.
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A prose retelling of Homer's epic poem.
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2016.
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40 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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A doll is left on the beach by a little girl who is preoccupied with her new kitten. The doll has to survive all sorts of tests and misadventures during the night but when a new day dawns, she sees things much more clearly.
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
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300 pages ; 21 cm
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A novel based on the life of Gerda Taro, a German-Jewish war photographer, anti-fascist activist, artist and innovator who, together with her partner, the Hungarian Endre Friedmann, was one half of the alias Robert Capa, widely considered to be the twentieth century's greatest war and political photographer. She was killed while documenting the Spanish Civil War and tragically became the first female photojournalist to be killed on a battlefield.
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A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER
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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
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