I am not nostalgic for our childhood: it was full of violence. That was life, period: and we grew up having to make it difficult for others before others made it difficult for us. Elena and Lila live in a poor neighborhood of Naples in the late fifties. Although they are gifted for studies, it is not the way which is promised to them. Lila drops out of school to work in her father's shoemaker's shop. Elena, supported by her teacher, will go to college and then to high school. The paths of the two friends cross and move away, against the backdrop of a dark Naples, in turmoil. The Prodigious Friend, The New Name and The Fleeing One and The One Who Remains are the first three books in Elena Ferrante's saga, which concludes with The Lost Child.

-> 430 pages

-> Novel

-> Condition: 7/10