Elena Ferrante
Pseudonymous Italian novelist best known for the Neapolitan Novels (including My Brilliant Friend). The author's true identity has not been publicly confirmed.
Books
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1. La Niña Perdida
A narrator traces a lifelong, fraught friendship with a brilliant, mercurial childhood companion in a poor Naples neighborhood, following their diverging paths through love, marriage, work and motherhood amid social change and political violence; rivalries, resentments and hidden choices accumulate over decades, culminating in a baffling disappearance that forces the narrator to reassess how their shared past shaped both of their lives.
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4. Незнакомая дочь
Во время одиночного отпуска пожилая преподавательница, наблюдая за молодой семьёй на пляже, испытывает бурю воспоминаний и конфликтов, связанных с собственным материнством: её прошлые решения, в том числе оставление детей ради свободы и карьеры, возвращаются в виде вины, ревности и навязчивого вмешательства в жизнь незнакомой матери и её дочери — вплоть до кражи куклы — что заставляет героиню заново осмыслить свою личность, желания и ответственность.
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5. История о пропавшем ребенке
Set in Naples, the novel follows two childhood friends whose intertwined lives—shaped by class, ambition, violence and creative yearning—are tracked from adolescence into middle age; personal successes and betrayals, shifting political currents and the demands of motherhood culminate in the baffling disappearance of one friend’s child, forcing a painful reckoning with the past and the fragile, consuming nature of their bond.
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6. Лживая взрослая жизнь
In Naples, a perceptive adolescent girl, jolted by a family remark about her resemblance to a disreputable aunt, begins a secretive exploration of that aunt and the city's darker neighborhoods; moving between her parents' comfortable bourgeois world and the rougher margins, she tests identities, sexual curiosity and loyalties, and uncovers hypocrisies, betrayals and hidden truths among adults that force her to rethink beauty, power and what it means to become herself.