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Only if you are a woman will you know these ugly secrets

Two Women's 50 Years of Friendship and War

How to become a stronger her without being defeated by her

Naples Quartet NO.2

The follow-up to My Brilliant Friend: Ferrante, Italy's most mysterious writer

Explores the passion, confusion, struggle, betrayal and loss of youth

The book has sold nearly 10 million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 40 languages.

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The Story of a New Name is the second of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Tetralogy, describing the youth of Elena and Lila, who experienced love, loss, confusion, struggle, jealousy, and hidden destruction together during the years when their lives diverged at the fastest speed.

On her wedding day, Lila discovered that marriage was not what she had imagined, and her first night was almost a rape. She intervened in Stefano's family business with a strong desire to destroy, and seemed to have become the kind of woman she and Elena wanted to be when they were children. Lila, who had not been pregnant for a long time, went on vacation to the seaside with Elena. And that summer on the island of Ischia changed everyone's life...

Out of anger at Lila's love, "I" (Elena) struggled to get out of this dilapidated, violent, and feuding neighborhood. "I" became the first college student in the neighborhood, got engaged to a boy from a high-level intellectual family, and even published my first novel. "I" returned to Naples as a winner, only to find that Lila, who had bid farewell to her ugly marriage, was working in a meat processing factory, suffering humiliation.

When I discovered that my novel had actually completely stolen the unique power and inspiration from the secret notebook that Lila entrusted to me, I was forced to face an extremely painful question: Between me and Lila, who left and who stayed?

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In life and fiction, in a friendship, the stronger, more complex person obscures the weaker person. But in Elena and Lila’s relationship, Elena, the weaker one, gains a kind of wisdom from her subordinate position—one that leaves Lila disoriented and dizzy. It’s hard to describe, but that’s what fascinates me. There are many incidents in Lila and Elena’s lives that show how one person draws strength from the other. But remember this: this is not just in the sense that they help each other, but also in the sense that they rob each other, stealing emotions and knowledge from each other, draining each other of their strength.

——Elena Ferrante in an interview with Corriere della Sera (2011)

The Neapolitan tetralogy is a brilliant and enduring exploration of jealousy - that most deadly of emotions, which sometimes masquerades as love.

——The New York Review of Books

Italian epic poem about female friendship and fate…For the first time since Homer and Ovid we have a female epic writer.

——The Atlantic Monthly

Ferrante's writing is so clear and her narrative is so straightforward, so fascinating and fascinating. - The Economist

For Ferrante, the primary purpose of fiction is to stir up those infected, open wounds, to poke them open, to make you aware of where your wounds are and where they come from.

——Los Angeles Review of Books

Elena must break free from the unbearable values ​​she has had to deal with since childhood, resist the temptation of worldly success, and gain knowledge and strength from Lila without being overwhelmed by her... The richest description of friendship in modern fiction.

--NPR

Everyone should read anything Elena Ferrante signs.

--The Boston Globe