The release date for the English version of 'The Story of the Lost Child' by
Elena Ferrante is Sep 2015. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
"The Neapolitan novels are unlike anything that has ever been published," The Guardian said in reference to them in 2014. With unrivalled honesty and brilliance, Elena Ferrante narrates the tale of a lifetime relationship between two women against the background of a globe experiencing epochal upheaval and a seductive but dangerous Naples.
The Story of the Lost Child is the concluding volume in the dazzling saga of two women — the brilliant, bookish Elena, and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Now that they are grownups, they have spouses, loves, elderly parents, and kids. Their friendship has been the gravitational center of their lives. The neighbourhood in which these ladies grew up was a prison of violence, inviolable taboos, and conformity, and they battled to get out. Elena got married, had a family, relocated to Florence, and wrote a number of well-received novels. In this final novel she has returned to Naples, drawn back as if responding to the city's obscure magnetism. Lila, on the other hand, was never able to leave her natal city. She's become a prosperous businesswoman, but her success brings her closer to the neighborhood's pervasive chauvinism, nepotism, and criminal violence. Being close to the world she has consistently rejected just highlights her status as its unrecognised leader. Because Lila is uncontrollable, uncontrollable, and memorable.
This series' four books together tell a lengthy, amazing narrative that readers will want to read again and again because each time they do, fresh information will become available.