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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: I like to rewrite stories – swapping men for women. It doesn’t always work

A woman who decides to give it all up rarely turns back, while men generally, at a certain point, need their Ithaca

Sometimes I play a game with myself in which I take stories with male protagonists – famous stories that I like a lot – and ask myself: if the protagonist were a woman, would it work just as well? Could Melville’s Bartleby, for example, be female? Or Stevenson’s Jekyll? Italo Svevo...

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	My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels, #1) by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator) 3.91 avg rating — 127,160 ratings — published 2011 — 141 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) 4.36 avg rating — 67,409 ratings — published 2012 — 106 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) 4.29 avg rating — 53,100 ratings — published 2013 — 98 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) 4.38 avg rating — 47,300 ratings — published 2014 — 86 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 — 13,417 ratings — published 2002 — 62 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 — 6,030 ratings — published 2006 — 51 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 — 4,979 ratings — published 1992 — 44 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) 4.50 avg rating — 1,023 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 — 777 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 4.04 avg rating — 682 ratings — published 2003 — 36 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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Quotes by Elena Ferrante

“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

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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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My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

4 votes, 28.6%

All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu

4 votes, 28.6%

A God in Ruins

2 votes, 14.3%

Glow by Ned Beauman

2 votes, 14.3%

The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright

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