Description
In this quartet, Ferrante traces the lives of two intelligent young women—Elena Greco, a kind, bookish girl, and her impulsive, frivolous friend, Lila—from childhood to adulthood, as they try to find their own lives within the violent and vulgar culture of the neighborhood they live in on the outskirts of Naples, Italy. The intertwined lives of the two girls offer an indelible portrait of Naples and a vital understanding of women’s daily lives and their relentless pursuit of male demands, domestic work, and artistic aspirations.
By carefully examining their friendship in all its detail, the book depicts how they struggled to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up, a prison of blind obedience, violence, and unbreakable taboos.
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