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Elena Ferrante

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

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Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by “one of the great novelists of our time” (The New York Times).
In the third book in the New York Times–bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, Elena and Lila have grown into womanhood. 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 for women during the 1970s. And yet, they are still very much bound to each other in a book that “shows off Ferrante’s strong storytelling ability and will leave readers eager for the final volume of the series” (Library Journal).
“One of modern fiction’s richest portraits of a friendship.” —NPR
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473 printed pages
Original publication
2014
Publication year
2014
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  • Olga Nerushevashared an impression7 years ago
    👍Worth reading

    К концу третьей части, прочитанной взахлёб, начинает казаться, что и у этого сериала первые сезоны были самые классные.

  • Itzel Beltránshared an impression4 years ago
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    Buen libro, el tercero de la tetralogía. Terminé con sentimientos encontrados, coraje, sorpresa. Gran historia que no puedes dejar de leer.

  • Gabriela Martínez Reynashared an impression3 years ago
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Quotes

  • finalfadeouthas quoted3 months ago
    All right, I said, we’re friends, but get out of your mind that you can be a woman like me, all you’d succeed in being is what a woman is according to you men. You can copy me, make a portrait as precise as an artist, but my shit will always remain mine, and yours will be yours. Ah, Lenù, what happens to us all, we’re like pipes when the water freezes, what a terrible thing a dissatisfied mind is. You remember what we did with my wedding picture? I want to continue on that path. The day will come when I reduce myself to diagrams, I’ll become a perforated tape and you won’t find me anymore.
  • finalfadeouthas quoted3 months ago
    even though I had had an education he did not want me to be capable of independent thought, he demeaned me by demeaning what I read, what interested me, what I said, and he appeared willing to love me only provided that I continually demonstrate my nothingness.
  • finalfadeouthas quoted3 months ago
    “A male, apart from the mad moments when you love him and he enters you, always remains outside. So afterward, when you no longer love him, it bothers you just to think that you once wanted him. He liked me, I liked him, the end. It happens to me many times a day—I’m attracted to someone. That doesn’t happen to you?

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