The Four Volumes: My Brilliant Friend
A deluxe cloth hardcover with sprayed edges and colored end papers illustrating the Bay of Naples.
#1 BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY --NEW YORK TIMES
"An unconditional masterpiece." --Jhumpa Lahiri
When Elena Ferrante set out to write the story of Elena and Lila, she conceived it as one single work of fiction, one expansive novel that would capture the reality and ambivalence of female friendship, motherhood, marriage, class and adolescence.
2025 marks 10 years since publication of the quartet was completed. To celebrate this anniversary, as well as honor and acknowledge the author's original conception, we are releasing the four novels in one volume.
Described by the New Yorker's James Wood as "large, captivating, amiably peopled...a beautiful and delicate tale of confluence and reversal," the Neapolitan Quartet tells a poignant, universal story about friendship and belonging.
"The capacity of stories to speak to anyone and in any time is the fruit of a mysterious mixture of sensibility, ability, and luck, and no writer really knows how that fruit ripens and if it has fully matured." --Elena Ferrante
Contains the four Neapolitan Novels: My Brilliant Friend; The Story of a New Name; Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay; The Story of the Lost Child
1,248 pages
English edition · First published 2025 by Europa Editions, Incorporated · ISBN 9798889661443
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