My brilliant friend elena5/22/2023 The novel starts with Lenù having left her husband Pietro with her daughters and going off to Montpellier with her lover, Nino Sarratore, whom, readers will remember, she has adored since girlhood. The pull of Naples and the neighbourhood is strong and we see Lenù returning to live there, but always with mixed feelings as violence and corruption are still part of life there. This book covers a wide span of time, from the early 70s to the present day and sees Lenù and Lila live through the rest of their youth and middle age to become older women in their 60s. (For background see my reviews of the previous books ‘ My Brilliant Friend’, ‘ The Story of a New Name‘ and ‘ Those who leave and those who stay’). And so to the final book in the quartet of Ferrante’s ‘Neapolitan Novels’ : ‘The Story of the Lost Child’.
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