Neapolitan Novels · book 2
Storia del nuovo cognome
About this book
Friends Lila and Elena 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 complicated and meticulously portrayed friendship at the center of their emotional lives, the two girls mature into women, paying the cruel price that this passage exacts. --back cover
Neapolitan Novels · 4 books
In publication order- 1 My Brilliant Friend 2011
- 2 The Story of a New Name 2012 This book
- 3 Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay 2013
- 4 The Story of the Lost Child 2014
Subjects
- choice
- conduct of life
- dreams
- female friendship
- fiction
- history
- interpersonal relations
- italian fiction
- marital conflict
- marriage
- new york times bestseller
- nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2016-03-27
- psychological fiction
- self-perception in women