This series is one of the best I have read in a long time. A deeply felt story avout the relationship between two friends which also vividly brings you through a time capsule of Italy from the '50 until today. Excellent

The book is about the friendship of two women, from childhood to old age, in the context of violence and degradation of the outskirts of Naples from the 1950s to our days. I couldn't take my eyes off the pages. I was totally captured by the story of Lenù (the first person narrator) and Lila and I could identify myself with them both. The author has a great psychological insight into the female mind and the ambiguousness and two-facedness of a female friendship: love and hate, admiration and envy, imitation and rivalry. Morbid feelings that hardly a woman can confess even to herself. And always that disturbing and enthralling impression that there is something more hiding between the lines. Something like a cathartic confession of unsayable feelings. The two characters are so alive that you feel that you are reading a true story and you want to get to know more about them. Who is actually the bad one of the two? Who is really the intriguing and fascinating Lila? Which of the two is the brilliant friend of the title? And how much of all this is based on reality? Does Lila really exist? All this escapes the final grasp of the reader. Great job Elena Ferrante, whoever you are.

L'ho già letto nella sua versione italiana. Una volta prestato si è come spesso accade volatilizzato, quindi copro lo stesso prodotto ma con un'altra veste. La versione in inglese sarà stata una vera sfida per la traduttrice, valeva la pena capirne il'esito.The story of the lost child: 4