Elena Ferrante


My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels, #2)
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Neapolitan Novels, #3)
The Story of the Lost Child (Neapolitan Novels, #4)
The Lying Life of Adults
The Days of Abandonment
The Lost Daughter
Troubling Love
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
Incidental Inventions
La frantumaglia
The Beach at Night
The Love Object
Memoirs of Hadrian
Lessico famigliare
My Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteThe Story of a New Name by Elena FerranteThose Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena FerranteThe Story of the Lost Child by Elena FerranteThe Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
Best of Elena Ferrante
16 books — 2 voters

The Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantPontifex Maximus by Christopher LascellesA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterAcross the River and into the Trees by Ernest HemingwayLiving In Italy by Stef Smulders
Off to Italy
109 books — 18 voters
The Covert Buccaneer by S. Lucia Kanter St. AmourAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
Books about Female Friendship
159 books — 65 voters

Elena Ferrante
Il cane se ne era andato attraverso uno strappo nella rete degli eventi. Ne lasciamo tanti, lacerazioni dell'incuria quando mettiamo insieme causa ed effetto. L'essenziale è che la corda, l'intreccio che ora mi reggeva, tenesse. ...more
Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante
Aunt Lina said that the spirits existed, but not in the palaces, or in the alleys, or near the ancient gates of the Vasto. They existed in people’s ears, in the eyes when the eyes looked inside and not out, in the voice as soon as it begins to speak, in the head when it thinks, because words are full of ghosts but so are images.
Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

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