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Original Title:	Storia del nuovo cognome
ISBN:	1609451341 (ISBN13: 9781609451349)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	L'amica geniale #2
Characters:	Raffaella Cerullo (Lila), Elena Greco (Lenuccia), Rino Cerullo, Stefano Carracci, Pasquale Peluso, Carmela Peluso, Ada Cappuccio, Antonio Cappuccio, Nino Sarratore, Enzo Scanno, Marcello Solara, Michele Solara, Pietro Airota, Gigliola Spagnuolo, Alfonso Caracci, Pinuccia Caracci
Setting:	Napoli(Italy)
Literary Awards:	BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2014), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (2015)

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In 2012, Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend introduced readers to the unforgettable Elena and Lila, whose lifelong friendship provides the backbone for the Neapolitan Novels. The Story of a New Name is the second book in this series. With these books, which the New Yorker's James Wood described as "large, captivating, amiably peopled ... a beautiful and delicate tale of confluence and reversal," Ferrante proves herself to be one of Italy's most accomplished storytellers. She writes vividly about a specific neighborhood of Naples from the late-1950s through to the current day and about two remarkable young women who are very much the products of that place and time. Yet in doing so she has created a world in which readers will recognize themselves and has drawn a marvelously nuanced portrait of friendship. In The Story of a New Name, Lila has recently married and made her entrée into the family business; Elena, meanwhile, continues her studies and her exploration of the world beyond the neighborhood that she so often finds stifling. Love, jealousy, family, freedom, commitment, and above all friendship: these are signs under which both women live out this phase in their stories. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila, and the pressure to excel is at times too much for Elena. Yet the two young women share a complex and evolving bond that is central to their emotional lives and is a source of strength in the face of life's challenges. In these Neapolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante, the acclaimed author of The Days of Abandonment, gives readers a poignant and universal story about friendship and belonging.

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Title	:	The Story of a New Name (L'amica geniale #2)
Author	:	Elena Ferrante
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 471 pages
Published	:	September 3rd 2013 by Europa Editions (first published September 22nd 2012)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Italy. Historical. Historical Fiction. European Literature. Italian Literature. Novels. Audiobook. Literary Fiction

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"Partly because her work describes domestic experiences such as vivid sexual jealousy and other forms of shame that are underexplored in fiction, Ferrantes reputation is soaring, especially among women (Zadie Smith, Mona Simpson and Jhumpa Lahiri are fans). Her writing has a powerful intimacy as if her characters, to paraphrase Ralph Waldo Emerson, are the lenses through which we read our own minds. The novelist Claire Messud emailed, When you write to me and say you love her work, I have a

How does one even begin to review this second volume in the Neapolitan series?What an incredible, mesmerising, overwhelming, raw, audacious, intimate novel this is. How masterful Ferrante's writing is, managing to unfold the complexities of life in a poor neighbourhood of Naples in the early 60's, but most importantly, the human complexities, especially of the two female protagonists, Lila and Elena (Lenu). This second instalment picks up where it left off in the previous volume, with Lila being

This is a marvelous novel with heart and soul, Neapolitan heart and soul that is. The second installment in the famous Elena Ferrante tetralogy, for me anyway, exceeded the first book in originality and plot line. I found it moving and a very quick read despite its nearly 500 page length.For this review, I wanted to focus on the title and the importance of names in Ferrante's work. First off, there is, it seems to me, a Proustian reference here to "Le nom du pays - Le nom" which is the somewhat

I read the first book in this series, My Brilliant Friend, over a year ago, but always thought I liked it enough to read the next one sometime. I just wasn't in a hurry. (You can read my review of book one here.)I'm certainly glad I finally dug into this one. Where the first book was about childhood and adolescence, with the microcosmic world of girlhood friendships (and conflicts) and aspirations, this book focuses on the two women, Lila and Elena, in their upper teen years. For Lila, this is

Im still a bit puzzled about the phenomen that Ferrantes cycle is. I dont find writing particuralry brilliant, I think I didnt mark any single quote here and yet enjoyed the story. I thought it was very predictible at times, I could see what was coming and mostly hadnt been suprised by the course of events and still kept reading. I can't say it was innovative or imaginative yet Ferrante managed to draw me in her world entirely. Maybe Im mistaken, but as I mentioned in the review of MBF, I still

Rating a 4.5Elena Greco and Lila Cerullo are friends, and through these books, you get the details of their lives and their friendship. You do not get a glimpse of their lives, you hear the minutiae of their daily lives. And you know what...it's utterly fascinating. This is a book to be savored slowly. There really is so much going on and there are so many people from the neighborhood that move in and out of the story. The story packs in so much - love, betrayal, friendship, marriage, adultery,

What's your ugly place?We all have one. We all have a place we quite deliberately do not go to. That we are aware is there, but have developed systems and defensive walls and jokes and denials in order to keep it out of the light of day. It's the place you can't help but end up sometimes when something particularly embarrassing happens to you, something tragic, an epiphany about yourself that you didn't particularly want occurs to you. It's the place where you were the person you never, ever