An extract from The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
In the fourth volume of her Neapolitan Quartet, Elena Ferrante presents the concluding volume in the dazzling saga of two women
Ann Goldstein
American editor and translator from the Italian language Ann Goldstein was born in New Jersey, USA, in 1949. She is an editor at The New Yorker magazine
She has translated works by, among others, Elena Ferrante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alessandro Baricco, and Alessandro Piperno. Goldstein is also the editor of the Complete Works of Primo Levi in English. She has been the recipient of several prizes including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN Renato Poggioli Prize, an award from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Against the backdrop of a seductive and perilous Naples, Elena Ferrante delivers a searingly honest chronicle of a lifelong female friendship
Translated by Ann Goldstein
