Elena Ferrante
Pseudonymous Italian author whose Neapolitan Novels, beginning with My Brilliant Friend, became a worldwide publishing phenomenon. Her fierce, unsparing fiction explores female friendship, ambition, and the violence of social forces in Naples.
Works
- My Brilliant FriendComing-of-age story of two girls' intense friendship in postwar Naples
- The Story of a New NameContinuation following the women into adulthood, marriage, and transformation
- Those Who Leave and Those Who StayThird installment exploring political engagement, motherhood, and diverging paths
- The Story of the Lost ChildFinal volume tracing decades of loss, memory, and the mystery of childhood friendship
- The Days of AbandonmentNovella depicting a woman's unraveling after her husband's abandonment