Release date: September 3rd, 2013
Series: L'amica geniale #2
Pages: 471
Genre: Fiction
In The Story of a New Name, Lila has recently married and made her entrée into the family business; Elena, meanwhile, continues her studies and her exploration of the world beyond the neighborhood that she so often finds stifling. Love, jealousy, family, freedom, commitment, and above all friendship: these are signs under which both women live out this phase in their stories. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila, and the pressure to excel is at times too much for Elena. Yet the two young women share a complex and evolving bond that is central to their emotional lives and is a source of strength in the face of life's challenges. In these Neapolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante, the acclaimed author of The Days of Abandonment, gives readers a poignant and universal story about friendship and belonging.
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There are people who leave and people who know how to be left.
4.25 stars!
Ferrante wins my heart once again, making me fall in love with her writing even more in this book.
Ferrante's writing is pretty simple, there's nothing to gush about, but it always amazes me how she can create such complex characters and story with simple words. It really makes me wonder if the story is based on her real-life experience because you could just feel the emotions.
I found this story a little more interesting than the one in the first book, there were a lot of things happening with Lila. Lila was a character in this book that I had some trouble reading, I could never understand her motives behind her actions and she was always unpredictable.
She was trying to be a good friend to Lena by helping her with school books and trying to give her a place where she could learn, but then she also did things that really hurt Lena and that, as a reader, made me truly frustrated and mad on Lena's behalf.
In this book, Lena and Lila's friendship came to a breaking point and they both kind of went into other ways, each of them living a very different life.
Their roles kind of switch in this book where Lena becomes quite successful at a very young age and Lila kind of stagnates and falls lower in her life, losing everything she always wished she'd have and ends up completely alone and having to work hard to survive, but she still doesn't lose her true character.
I'm now officially a fan of this series and I can't wait to read the third book!
P.S. I strongly dislike English version covers. They're really terrible and unappealing. Am I the only one?
Elena Ferrante is a pseudonymous Italian novelist. Ferrante's books, originally published in Italian, have been translated into many languages. Her four-book series of Neapolitan Novels are her most widely known works.
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