A deluxe cloth hardcover with sprayed edges and colored end papers illustrating the Bay of Naples.
When Elena Ferrante set out to write the story of Elena and Lila, she conceived it as one single work of fiction, one expansive novel that would capture the reality and ambivalence of female friendship, motherhood, marriage, class and adolescence.āÆĀ
2025 marks 10 years since publication of the quartet was completed. To celebrate this anniversary, as well as honor and acknowledge the authorās original conception, we are releasing the four novels in one volume.āÆāÆāÆĀ
Described by the New Yorkerās James Wood as ālarge, captivating, amiably peopled...a beautiful and delicate tale of confluence and reversal,ā the Neapolitan Quartet tells a poignant, universal story about friendship and belonging.āÆāÆĀ
āThe capacity of stories to speak to anyone and in any time is the fruit of a mysterious mixture of sensibility, ability, and luck, and no writer really knows how that fruit ripens and if it has fully matured.ā āElena FerranteĀ
Contains the four Neapolitan Novels:Ā My Brilliant Friend;Ā The Story of a New Name;Ā Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay;Ā The Story of the Lost Child
Hardcover | 1248 pages | 7.00" x 9.40"