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The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. As they grow, as their paths repeatedly diverge and converge, Elena and Lila remain best friends whose respective destinies are reflected and refracted in the other. They are likewise the embodiments of a nation undergoing momentous change. Through...
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The second book, following last year's My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this...
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Neapolitan novels volume 3
Thorndike Press large print basic
Amica geniale volume 3
Neopolitan novels volume 03
Thorndike Press large print basic
Amica geniale volume 3
Neopolitan novels volume 03
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English
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Continues the story of Lina and Elena as they push against boundaries in 1970s Italy, where Lina has left her husband and is working in a factory while taking care of her son and Elena has graduated college and published a novel.
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Here is the dazzling saga of two women: the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults; many of life's great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship has remained the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up--a prison of conformity, violence, and inviolable taboos. Elena married,...
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Lumen
Pub. Date
2016.
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Español
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A partir de la década de 1950 Elena y Lila crecen en Nápoles, Italia, lo que refleja dos aspectos diferentes de su nación.
Beginning in the 1950s Elena and Lila grow up in Naples, Italy, mirroring two different aspects of their nation.
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Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
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2016.
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English
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The second book, following last year's My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this...
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Debolsillo/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA
Pub. Date
2018.
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Español
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"Ella me demostró que yo no había ganado nada, simplemente porque en este mundo nuestro no había nada que ganar y lo que de verdad valía la pena era verse de vez en cuando para que el sonido enloquecido de nuestras mentes fuera rebotando de la una a la otra sin parar." Ella es una mujer hermosa, alocada, se llama Lila y ahora, recién cumplidos los dieciséis años, acaba de casarse con un hombre al que desprecia. La otra, que escucha, la sigue...