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"The Lost Child (Neapolitan Quartet 4)" / Author: [Italy] Elena Ferrante / Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House
"The Lost Child (Neapolitan Quartet 4)" / Author: [Italy] Elena Ferrante / Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
"My whole life has been a vulgar struggle to rise in social status."
The book has sold nearly 10 million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 40 languages.
"My Brilliant Friend", "The Story of a New Name", "Those Who Leave, Those Who Stay"——
Naples Quartet NO.4 The addictive finale
The ultimate shaping of a person through friendship
"The Lost Child" is the fourth part of the "Neapolitan Tetralogy". The novel focuses on the prime and old age of Lila and Elena ("I"), and puts a heartbreaking end to their friendship that has lasted for more than fifty years.
For love and writing, I left my husband and returned to Naples with my two daughters, and inevitably became close to Lila and the city I once wanted to escape from. Lila and I even got pregnant and gave birth to a child in the same year, and experienced the horrific and brutal Naples earthquake. Everything fell apart, and everything will be rebuilt.
I was unconsciously involved in Lila's secret plan - she hoped to use my fame and writing skills to fight against the stale and rampant evil forces in the city. But after experiencing the most terrifying blow in her life, Lila chose to completely exile herself in the city in a weird and exaggerated way.
And "I" will face the failures of writing, love, and family with amazing resilience and honesty. After years of self-doubt, "I" decided to disobey (ignore?) Lila's warning and write a novel about our lifelong friendship, but it brought the deepest betrayal...
About the Author · · · · · ·
Elena Ferrante is currently the most popular and mysterious writer in Italy. Elena Ferrante is a pseudonym, and her true identity remains a mystery.
Elena Ferrante published her first novel, "Love Is Not Blind," in 1992, which quickly attracted attention and was made into a film of the same name by Italian director Mario Martone in 1995. Since then, she has published novels such as "The Days of Being Abandoned" (2002), "The Lost Daughter" (2006), "The Beach at Night" (2007) and the collection of essays and interviews "Uncertain Fragments" (2003).
From 2011 to 2014, Elena Ferrante published four related novels, My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave, Those Who Stay, and The Lost Child, at a frequency of one book per year. These four novels are known as the "Neapolitan Quartet". They describe the half-century friendship between two girls born in a poor community in Naples in an epic style.
The Neapolitan Quartet also sparked a "Ferrante fever" around the world, with millions of readers moved by the book's extremely realistic, sharp, and unvarnished description of female friendship. Although the author has never disclosed her gender, the media and critics have judged her to be a woman from her highly "autobiographical" writing. In 2015, Elena Ferrante was named "Woman of the Year" by the Financial Times. In 2016, Time magazine selected Elena Ferrante as one of the "100 Most Influential Artists."
About the Translator:
Chen Ying, a PhD in Italian linguistics, is currently an associate professor at Sichuan International Studies University. She has translated "The Angry Castle", "A Man Disappears from the World", "Persecution", "Fist", "Venice is a Fish", etc.
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