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The Story of the Lost Child

Storia della bambina perduta

Elena Ferrante

Translated by Ann Goldstein

English editions

In English

• The Story of the Lost Child

  Europa Editions · United States · 2015 · Paperback · 480 pages

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Lila and Elena, the friends who grew up together in a poor Naples neighbourhood, are now adults whose lives have been full of discoveries, falls and new beginnings. Elena has become an established writer; she left Naples, married and separated, and has two daughters, and now returns to the city to follow a love from her youth. Lila stayed, more tangled in family ties and the Camorra, but has invented a surprising career in computing and acts as the charismatic leader of the neighbourhood. Their friendship, made of clashes and reconciliations, envy and admiration, reveals new sides of both.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

451 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Italy, 1970s–2000s

Series

L'amica geniale, book 4

First published

2014 by Edizioni e/o

ISBN

9788866325512 (original)

9781609452865 (Europa Editions, United States)

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