![]() ![]() Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between her protagonists, the unforgettable Elena and Lila. They are likewise the embodiments of a nation undergoing momentous change. As they grow, as their paths repeatedly diverge and converge, Elena and Lila remain best friends whose respective destinies are reflected and refracted in the other. ![]() Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. The second in the Neapolitan Novels series by evasive Italian author Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name elicited the Guardian to dub Ferrante a ‘writer of the unsayable’. No one understood us, only we two-I thought-understood one another. The Story of a New Name is an absorbing examination of the personal transformation of the two young women and the choices that diverge their paths in life. ![]() We were twelve years old, but we walked along the hot streets of the neighborhood, amid the dust and flies that the occasional old trucks stirred up as they passed, like two old ladies taking the measure of lives of disappointment, clinging tightly to each other. ![]()
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