The third movement of the Neapolitan quartet, already called «the best literary epic of our time», takes place in the late 1960s and 1970s. The story of friendship between Elena Greco and Leela Cerullo continues against a turbulent historical background: student protests, street clashes, the growing trade union movement … Leela, after parting with her husband, moved with her little son to the area of new buildings and works at a sausage factory. Elena left Naples, graduated from an elite college, published a book, is preparing to get married and become a member of an influential family. Life drives them further and further, they become for each other only voices on the other end of the line. Will their relationship withstand the test of change?
Reviews:
“The cycle of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels is an unconditional, unconditional masterpiece … I was shocked and fascinated. I forgot about everything, I didn’t want to do anything but follow Leela and Lena … «- Jumpa Lahiri
“To be able to fill a text with the pure, undiluted energy of life of such enormous power is an outstanding achievement.” — Claire Messoud
Ferrante is a shock — Alice Siebold
«Nothing like this has been published before.» — The Guardian
“Ferrante says what no one else has said before. And he does it painfully sincerely and truthfully. Like No Other «- London Review of Books
Copyright © 2013 by Edizioni e / o
Published in the Russian language by arrangement with
Clementina Liuzzi Literary Agency and Edizioni e / o
© Edition in Russian, translation into Russian, design.
Sindbad Publishing House, 2017.
Recorded by the Vimbo Production Center
© & ℗ LLC «Vimbo», 2017
Producers: Vadim Bukh, Mikhail Litvakov
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