The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante Boxed Set

Elena Ferrante

Oct 2015 · Penguin

About this ebook

“Nothing quite like this has ever been published before,” proclaimed The Guardian about the Neapolitan novels in 2014. Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, Elena Ferrante tells the story of a sixty-year friendship between the brilliant and bookish Elena and the fiery, rebellious Lila with unmatched honesty and brilliance.

The four books in this novel cycle constitute a long, remarkable story, one that Vogue described as “gutsy and compulsively readable,” which readers will return to again and again, and each return will bring with it new revelations.   

Ratings and reviews

If there has ever been a book that has inspired change in my life, this is it. It's extravagantly powerful and should be mandatory for all. Perhaps especially for men to better understand the battles of women even in a modern world and put modern day feminism into perspective. As a grown man I cried openly in public transport reading this book unable to restrain my emotions. A picture circulates of me reading it, not paying any attention to my friends who just arrived. I was completely immersed for weeks.

About the author

Elena Ferrante was born in Naples. 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 fourth and final book in the series, The Story of the Lost Child.