Those who leave and those who stay

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Érase una vez dos niñas, Lenù y Lila, que nacieron en 1944 en un barrio pobre de la ciudad de Nápoles. Lila se casó muy joven con el hombre más adinerado del barrio y poco tardó en dejarlo. Elena, en cambio, ha continuado con los estudios e incluso ha escrito una novela. Así, a primera vista, nada une ya a las dos amigas, pero el barrio de Nápoles donde fueron niñas aún las reclama, las viejas costumbres las devuelven a un tiempo que ya se fue, y el peso de las emociones se cobre su precio.

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Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of our most compelling, insightful, and stylish contemporary authors has grown enormously. She has gained admirers among authors--Jhumpa Lahiri, Elizabeth Strout, Claire Messud, to name a few--and critics--James Wood, John Freeman, Eugenia Williamson, for example. But her most resounding success has undoubtedly been with readers, who have discovered in Ferrante a writer who speaks with great power and beauty of the mysteries of belonging, human relationships, love, family, and friendship. 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 of 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 mystery, ignorance and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the nineteen-seventies. Yet they are still very much bound to see each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.

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Other Editions

• Those who leave and those who stay: The Neapolitan novels : middle timeEuropa Editions2014-01-01
• Storia di chi fugge e di chi restaBrossurae/o Edizioni2013-01-01
• Those Who Leave and Those Who StayeBookEuropa Editions2014-01-01
• Las deudas del cuerpoLumen2014-01-01
• Those Who Leave and Those Who StayText Publishing Company2015-01-01
• Those Who Leave and Those Who StayAudio CDBlackstone Audiobooks2015-06-02