Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa,
2005), Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), The Lost Daughter (Europa,
2008), and the four novels known as the Neapolitan Quartet (My
Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and
Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child) which were
published by Europa Editions between 2012 and 2015. My Brilliant
Friend, the HBO series directed by Saverio Costanzo, premiered in
2018. Ferrante is also the author of Frantumaglia: A Writer’s
Journey (Europa, 2016), a children’s picture book illustrated by
Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night (Europa, 2016), and a collection of
personal essays illustrated by Andrea Ucini entitled Incidental
Inventions (Europa, 2019). The Lost Daughter was made into a
feature film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia
Colman. Her most recent novel is The Lying Life of Adults (Europa,
2020). In the Margins, a collection of original essays on reading
and writing, was published by Europa in 2022.
Ann Goldstein is one of the most accomplished translators from the
Italian working today. Best known for her translations of Elena
Ferrante’s oeuvre, she has also translated novels by Primo Levi,
Pierpaolo Pasolini, Alessandro Baricco and other classic and
contemporary Italian writers.
"Elena Ferrante’s novels have a driving and unconventional
narrative power that has gripped readers across a wide cultural
range...the last of the quartet The Story of the Lost Child, which
has just been longlisted for the Man Booker International prize, is
the best."
*Margaret Drabble, The Guardian*
"This final book in Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet brings a
phenomenal literary enterprise to an arresting conclusion."
*The Sunday Times*
"A tribute to feminism and female friendship in mid-20th-century
Naples."
*The Economist*
"The final installation of her Neapolitan quartet, was every bit as
sinister and compelling as its predecessors, a vivid and haunting
portrait of female friendship that confirms Ferrante as one of the
masters of her craft."
*Alex Preston, The Guardian*
"The first work worthy of the Nobel prize to have come out of Italy
for many decades."
*The Observer*
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