Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay

Set in the late 1960s and the 1970s, the story of Lina and Elena's friendship continues. Lina, separated from her husba... (more)

Set in the late 1960s and the 1970s, the story of Lina and Elena's friendship continues. Lina, separated from her husband, lives in a new neighborhood of Naples and works in a factory. Elena has left Naples and published a novel. Both women experience life in the new era of dramatic changes in sexual politics and social changes as their lifelong friendship endures. (less)

Continues the story of Lina and Elena as they push against boundaries in 1970s Italy, where Lina has left her husband an... (more)

Continues the story of Lina and Elena as they push against boundaries in 1970s Italy, where Lina has left her husband and is working in a factory while taking care of her son and Elena has graduated college and published a novel. (less)

The incredible story continues in book three of the critically acclaimed Neapolitan novels! In this third Neapolitan nov... (more)

The incredible story continues in book three of the critically acclaimed Neapolitan novels! In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance, and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the 1970s. Yet they are still very much bound to each other by a strong, unbreakable bond. (less)