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-- My brilliant friend :2012., Adult, Europa Editions Call No: Fic Fer Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library Series Title: Neapolitan novels Volume: 1Summary Note: Beginning in the 1950s Elena and Lila grow up in Naples, Italy, mirroring two different aspects of their nation.
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2015., 181840., Blackstone Audio, Inc. Edition: Unabridged. Connect to this eAudiobook title Series Title: Neapolitan novels Volume: book 4.Summary Note: Here is the dazzling saga of two women: the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults; many of life's great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship has remained the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up--a prison of conformity, violence, and inviolable taboos. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received novels. In this final book, she has returned to Naples. Lila, on the other hand, never succeeded in freeing herself from the city of her birth. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity to the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect her neighborhood. Nearness to the world she has always rejected only brings her role as its unacknowledged leader into relief. For Lila is unstoppable, unmanageable, and unforgettable. Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous, the story of a lifelong friendship is told with unmatched honesty and brilliance.
![The story of the lost child [eAudiobook]](/Library/images/~imageCT101005.JPG "The story of the lost child [eAudiobook]")
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c2015., Adult, Europa Editions Call No: Fic Fer Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Neapolitan novels Volume: book fourSummary Note: Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, this story of a lifelong friendship is told with unmatched honesty. Lila and Elena clash, drift apart, reconcile, and clash again, in the process revealing new facets of their friendship.
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2012., Adult, Penguin Group (USA), Inc. Edition: eBook ed. Series Title: Book two of the Neapolitan novelsSummary Note: Lila is imprisoned by marriage, while Elena continues her journey of self-discovery, until their friendship, which is at the center of their emotional lives, forces them both to mature into women.
![The story of a new name [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT84855.JPG "The story of a new name [eBook]")
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2015., 164351., Blackstone Audio, Inc. Edition: Unabridged. Connect to this eAudiobook title Series Title: Neapolitan novels Volume: book 3.Summary Note: The incredible story continues in book three of the critically acclaimed Neapolitan novels!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 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 during the 1970s. Yet they are still very much bound to each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.
![Those who leave and those who stay [eAudiobook]](/Library/images/~imageCT101006.JPG "Those who leave and those who stay [eAudiobook]")