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Elena Ferrante

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Elena Ferrante is a pseudonymous Italian novelist.

Ferrante is the author of a half dozen novels, including The Lost Daughter (originally published as La figlia oscura, 2006).

In 2012, Europa Editions began publication of English translations of Ferrante's "Neapolitan Novels," a series about two perceptive and intelligent girls from Naples who try to create lives for themselves within a violent and stultifying culture.

Critics have praised her for her "devastating power as a novelist" and for a style that is "pleasingly rigorous and sharply forthright."

Ferrante holds that "books, once they are written, have no need of their authors."

On 10th March 2016, The Story of the Lost Child was longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International prize, ce ...more

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Elena Ferrante: this is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me

Writing every Saturday has meant the permanent exposure of fragments of myself. But I am indebted to you, my readers

This exercise ends here: I gave myself a year, and the year is up. I had never done work like this, and I hesitated a good deal before trying it. I was afraid of the weekly deadline; I was afraid of having to write even if I didn’t feel like it; I was afraid of the need to publish...

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Average rating: 4.13 · 350,184 ratings · 31,473 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels, #1) by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator) 3.92 avg rating — 137,573 ratings — published 2011 — 148 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story of a New Name (The Neapolitan Novels, #2) by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator) 4.37 avg rating — 73,407 ratings — published 2012 — 110 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (The Neapolitan Novels, #3) by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator) 4.30 avg rating — 57,766 ratings — published 2013 — 104 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story of the Lost Child (The Neapolitan Novels, #4) by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator) 4.39 avg rating — 51,833 ratings — published 2014 — 91 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator) 3.88 avg rating — 14,377 ratings — published 2002 — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Daughter 3.83 avg rating — 6,527 ratings — published 2006 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator) 3.35 avg rating — 5,496 ratings — published 1992 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator) 4.52 avg rating — 1,171 ratings — published 2015 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Beach at Night by Elena Ferrante, Mara Cerri (Illustrations) , Ann Goldstein (Translation) 3.37 avg rating — 832 ratings — published 2007 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La frantumaglia 4.03 avg rating — 727 ratings — published 2003 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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L'amica geniale (4 books)
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“Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

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“The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

tags: meaning, purpose

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“she was explaining to me that I had won nothing, that in the world there is nothing to win, that her life was full of varied and foolish adventures as much as mine, and that time simply slipped away without any meaning, and it was good just to see each other every so often to hear the mad sound of the brain of one echo in the mad sound of the brain of the other.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

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November Side Read Nominations- 1st Poll

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Salt to the Sea

by Ruta Sepetys

16 votes, 26.7%

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by Eowyn Ivey

8 votes, 13.3%

Yes Please

by Amy Poehler

5 votes, 8.3%

The Nest

by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

5 votes, 8.3%

Eventide

by Kent Haruf

4 votes, 6.7%

The Space Between Us

by Thrity Umrigar

4 votes, 6.7%

The Ex

by Alafair Burke

3 votes, 5.0%

The Midwife of Hope River

by Patricia Harman

3 votes, 5.0%

The House on Tradd Street

by Karen White

3 votes, 5.0%

Crossing to Safety

by Wallace Stegner

2 votes, 3.3%

Let the Great World Spin

by Colum McCann

2 votes, 3.3%

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

by Matthew Desmond

2 votes, 3.3%

My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante

1 vote, 1.7%

Pictures of You

by Caroline Leavitt

1 vote, 1.7%

The Tin Flute

by Gabrielle Roy

1 vote, 1.7%

60 total votes

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