The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante ePub Download

February 23, 2024 Fiction, Novels

Download The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante PDF free. “The Story of the Lost Child: Neapolitan Novels, Book Four” brings us back to the disorderly disturbing violent area in Naples where Elena (Lenu or Lenuccia) and Lina (Lila or Raffaella) grew up in post-war Italy.

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“The Story of the Lost Child: Neapolitan Novels, Book Four” is a wonderful conclusion to an epic story of friendship, love, loss and Italy after World War II. Elena Ferrante is the author of this book. This is a beautifully written and mesmerizing story of friendship, marriage, and class struggle in this time and place in Italy. The fourth and final of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels is brilliant and poignant and takes the reader through more years of Lila’s and Lenu’s lives than any of the previous novels. Lost Child is notable for its treatment of Naples, always a distinct character in the stories but now more fleshed out and more relevant to the city’s current state.

Both women once fought to escape the neighbourhood in which they grew up. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books. But now, she has returned to Naples to be with the man she has always loved. Lila, on the other hand, never succeeded in freeing herself from Naples. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect her neighbourhood. Yet somehow this proximity to a world she has always rejected only brings her role as unacknowledged leader of that world into relief. In short, it is a beautiful story and a beautiful and fitting ending to the series.