Read 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
Elena Ferrante
Elena Ferrante was born in Naples. This is all we know about her.
True to her belief that ‘books, once they are written, have no need of their authors’, Ferrante has stayed resolutely out of public view. She is the author of The Days of Abandonment, Troubling Love, and The Lost Daughter. Her Neapolitan novels include My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child. She is also the author of Frantumaglia, a collection of writings on reading, writing and absence.
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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.
