“The Story of the Missing Child” is the fourth and final part of the gripping epic that shocked many readers about two friends: the quiet clever Lena and the wayward talented Leela. Time passes — each of them has a family, children, elderly parents, lovers … however, the most constant thing that was in Lena and Leela’s life is their friendship.
Four books from Ferrante’s Neapolitan cycle made up a unique saga that literary critic Galina Yuzefovich called almost the main international bestseller of the 2010s.
Both heroines made a lot of efforts trying to escape from the poor Neapolitan quarter in which they grew up — the realm of inertia, cruelty and harsh taboos. Lena got married, moved to Florence, became a famous writer. But now he returns to Naples, as if unable to resist his dark spell.
Leela was unable to leave her hometown. She became a successful entrepreneur, but her success only drags her deeper into the neapolitan maelstrom of nepotism, chauvinism and criminal showdown. In the end, the uncontrollable, unstoppable, irresistible Leela turns into the uncrowned queen of the very world that she has always hated so much …
Reviews:
«The thrill of reading novels is so great that it is described from an epidemiological point of view, which makes it almost sound like an infectious disease.» The Neapolitan Quartet has become a kind of commercial blockbuster — worldwide sales in English exceed three million copies.
The New York Times Alexandra Alter
After My Brilliant Friend was translated into English and sold in millions of copies around the world, the hashtag #FerranteFever (passion for Ferrante) appeared on the network, symbolizing the craze for the Neapolitan cycle.
The popularity of Ferrante inspired Giacomo Durzi to shoot a documentary with the telling name «Ferrante Fever». Filming will cover several cities, among them New York, Naples, San Francisco and Turin, and Naples, «long earned a reputation as a dirty and dangerous city», is experiencing a real tourist boom.
Today, filming based on the «Neapolitan Quartet» is being discussed with might and main — together with the HBO channel, Italian director Saverio Constanzo plans to turn the story about girlfriends into a television series.
Copyright © 2014 by Edizioni e / o
Published in the Russian language by arrangement with
Clementina Liuzzi Literary Agency and Edizioni e / o
© Edition in Russian, translation into Russian, design.
Sindbad Publishing House, 2017.
Recorded by Vimbo Production Center
© & ℗ Vimbo LLC, 2017
Producers: Vadim Bukh, Mikhail Litvakov
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