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Frantumaglia: Fragments: on Writing and Reading by Elena Ferrante
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Elena Ferrante is one of the greatest novelists of our time. Read her novels and don't worry about who she is: you will be entranced by her writing. Fragments is a riveting compilation, over the course of her writing career, of Elena Ferrante's letters to her publisher, interviews with editors and journ ...Show more
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante
$27.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Reflections on reading and writing from the author of My Brilliant Friend. 'Elena Ferrante has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy - and the world.' - The Sunday Times A delightful collection of essays exploring reading and writing from the internationally acclaimed author of My Brilli ...Show more
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Neapolitan Quartet | Reading Level: very good
The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. They learn to rely on each other and discover that their destinies are bound up in the intensity of their relationship. Elena Ferrante's piercingly honest portrait of two girls' path into woma ...Show more
Stories of Southern Italy by Ella Carr (Editor); Elena Ferrante (Contribution by); Elsa Morante (Contribution by); Ovid (Contribution by); Virgil (Contribution by); Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (Contribution by); Somerset Maugham (Contribution by)
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil and Ovid evoke a Sicily populated by Cyclopes and sea monsters, while in an excerpt from The Smile of the ...Show more
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Soon to be a major film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson and Paul Mescal.
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend. Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find her ...Show more
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find herself and save herself? She is searching for a new face in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: the Naple ...Show more
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Neapolitan Quartet
The Story of a New Name, the second book of the Neapolitan Quartet, picks up the story where My Brilliant Friend left off.Lila has recently married and made her entree into the family business; Elena, meanwhile, continues her studies and her exploration of the world beyond the neighbourhood that she so ...Show more
The Story of a New Name (My Brilliant Friend #2) by Elena Ferrante
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: My Brilliant Friend | Reading Level: very good
The Story of a New Name is an extraordinary novel about two young women, Lila and Elena, growing up in Naples in the early 1960s. At sixteen Lila marries the shopkeeper Stefano. She is filled with pleasure at her new wealth, and horror at the life she has chosen. Elena's own attempts at romance seem to ...Show more
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Neapolitan (#4) | Reading Level: very good
Soon to be an HBO series, book four in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one of today's most beloved and acclaimed writers, Elena Ferrante, "one of the great novelists of our time." (Roxana Robinson, The ...Show more
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: The Neapolitan Novels book 4 of 4
The quartet traces the friendship between Elena and Lila, from their childhood in a poor neighbourhood in Naples, to their thirties, when both women are mothers but each has chosen a different path. Their lives are still inextricably linked, for better or worse, especially when it comes to the drama of ...Show more
The Story of the Lost Child (#4 Neapolitan) by Elena Ferrante
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: The\Neapolitan Novels Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Soon to be an HBO series, book four in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one of today's most beloved and acclaimed writers, Elena Ferrante, "one of the great novelists of our time." (Roxana Robinson, The ...Show more