Bibliograph

Those who leave and those who stay, by Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

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Those who leave and those who stay, by Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

Those who leave and those who stay

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Oclc number

900865552

Responsibility statement

by Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

Series statement

Neapolitan novels, bk. 3

Summary

In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance, and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the 1970s. Yet they are still very much bound to each other by a strong, unbreakable bond

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