Bibliograph

Those who leave and those who stay, Elena Ferrante

Type

Label

Those who leave and those who stay, Elena Ferrante

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Those who leave and those who stay

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Elena Ferrante

Series statement

The Neapolitan novels, book three

Summary

In the third book in the Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, Elena and Lila have grown into womanhood. 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 for women during the 1970s

Target audience

adult

Classification