Elena Ferrante Book order (chronological)

Un'intensa e poetica versione a fumetti del primo libro di un ciclo di romanzi amato in tutto il mondo, che narra l’amicizia tra Raffaella ed Elena, Lila e Lenù. Il loro legame indissolubile inizia da due bambine che si prendono per mano in un rione povero della periferia napoletana negli anni Cinquanta e segue la loro crescita, l'influenza reciproca e i sentimenti che alimentano il loro rapporto nel corso dei decenni. Questo adattamento coinvolgente, grazie al linguaggio espressivo del fumetto, offre nuove prospettive sull'opera iconica di Elena Ferrante. Le illustrazioni di Mara Cerri, una delle migliori illustratrici contemporanee, unite alla narrazione di Chiara Lagani, drammaturga e fondatrice della compagnia teatrale Fanny & Alexander, arricchiscono la storia. La narrazione di Lila e Lenù, dall'infanzia all'età adulta, rivive in una nuova dimensione, iniziando con il loro gesto di coraggio contro Don Achille, l’orco della loro infanzia. Sullo sfondo, la Napoli degli anni Cinquanta, una città segnata dalle contraddizioni. Questo graphic novel rappresenta un affascinante viaggio nell'opera di Ferrante, con una trasposizione fedele ma artisticamente autonoma, e la supervisione di Davide Reviati, importante autore del fumetto contemporaneo.

Reflections on reading and writing from the author of My Brilliant Friend.

From the author of My Brilliant Friend, a powerful new novel set in a divided Naples. Soon to be adapted into a NETFLIX original series.

With these words, Elena Ferrante bid farewell to her year-long collaboration with the Guardian newspaper. For a full year, she wrote an article each week, the subjects of which had been suggested by Guardian editors, making the writing process a form of prolonged interlocution.

Allein am Strand zurückgelassen und ganz auf sich gestellt – die Puppe Celina durchlebt eine schreckliche Nacht. Der schäbige Strandwärter versucht, ihr die Worte zu rauben und sie mit seinem großen Rechen aufzukehren wie Müll, das Feuer will sie verbrennen, und das Meer erhört keines ihrer Gebete. Aber Schlimmste ist: Ihre Puppenmutter, das kleine Mädchen Mati, hat sie vergessen, denn Mati hat jetzt ein kleines Kätzchen zur Spielgefährtin. Ein Unglück folgt aufs Nächste, bis die Nacht sich in einen Tag verwandelt, und als die Sonne aufgeht, sieht Celina plötzlich alles ein wenig klarer. Der Strand bei Nacht ist die rätselhafte, berührende, überraschende Geschichte einer Puppe mit zerbrechlicher Seele und allzu menschlichen Gefühlen. Elena Ferrantes unverwechselbare Verlebendigungskunst und Mara Cerris traumähnliche Bilder fügen sich zu einem eindringlichen Leseerlebnis für kleine und große Ferrante-Fans.

"Dani zaborava" priča su o Olgi, ženi na pragu 40-ih, majci dvoje djece, koju ostavi suprug zbog mlađe žene. Njezini neočekivani "dani zaborava" pretvaraju se u slobodni pad u najmračnije zakutke duše, a kad se nađe zatočena unutar četiri zida svojeg stana, Olga je prisiljena suočiti se s vlastitim demonima, izglednim gubitkom identiteta i mogućnošću da se život više nikad ne vrati u normalu. Prvi hrvatski prijevod jednog od najuzbudljivijih i najvažnijih glasova suvremene svjetske književnosti – roman koji je skandalizirao, ali i opčinio Italiju nakon objave – emocionalni je slobodni pad, bespoštedna, maestralna literarna analiza boli, povrijeđenosti i ljutnje, koja malo koga može ostaviti ravnodušnim. O tome tko stoji iza pseudonima Elena Ferrante, ne zna se mnogo, pa čak ni radi li se doista o ženi. Svejedno romani potpisani tim imenom posljednjih godina dobivaju neviđenu medijsku i čitateljsku pozornost, a najugledniji kritičari svijeta doslovno se, i potpuno opravdano, natječu u panegiricima.

Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, this story of a lifelong friendship is told with unmatched honesty. Lila and Elena clash, drift apart, reconcile, and clash again, in the process revealing new facets of their friendship.

Set in the late 1960s and the 1970s, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay continues the story of the feisty and rebellious Lina and her lifelong friend, the brilliant and bookish Elena. Lina, after separating from her husband, is living with her young son in a new neighbourhood of Naples and working at a local factory. Elena has left Naples, earned a degree from an elite college, and published a novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned and fascinating interlocutors. The era, with its dramatic changes in sexual politics and social costumes, with its seemingly limitless number of new possibilities, is rendered with breathtaking vigour. This third Neapolitan Novel is not only a moving story of friendship but also a searing portrait of a rapidly changing world. Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of today's most compelling, insightful, and stylish authors has grown. She has gained admirers among authors, artists, and critics. But her most resounding success has undoubtedly been with readers, who have discovered in Ferrante a writer who speaks with great power and beauty of the mysteries of belonging, human relationships, love, family, and friendship.

The international bestseller, now in B-format paperback with a brand new cover.

Ammirazione, stupore e incredulità destò nel 1991 l’uscita dell’ Amore molesto . Chi era questa scrittrice che si firmava Elena Ferrante e dichiarava di aver vissuto molto tempo a Napoli e poi in Grecia? Già in quel primo romanzo la sua voce era decisa, nitida, perfetta. Una voce che alla fitta trama coniugava l’atmosfera soffocante del romanzo poliziesco americano, il gesticolare patetico e comico dei grandi personaggi di Samuel Beckett, gli angoscianti dubbi sulla propria identità di Virginia Woolf, e la confusa e allo stesso tempo cruciale caccia ai fantasmi di Henry James. Difficile dare un’etichetta a un tale romanzo: una donna di circa quarantacinque anni che, di fronte all’improvvisa e misteriosa morte della madre, tenta di appurare come si sono svolti i fatti. Undici anni dopo, nel 2002, uscì I giorni dell’abbandono , opera meno oscura sebbene altrettanto cupa e di grande impatto; una peripezia di disamore, solitudine e disperazione senza un briciolo di sentimentalismo, senza una pagina superflua. Pubblico e critica tornarono a mostrarsi ancora più ammirati ed entusiasti. Nel 2006 fu pubblicato un terzo romanzo, La figlia oscura , incentrato sui rapporti tra una madre e le sue due figlie.

Beginning in the 1950s Elena and Lila grow up in Naples, Italy, mirroring two different aspects of their nation. (This book was previously listed in Forecast.) Original. 50,000 first printing.

Leda, a middle-aged divorcée, is alone for the first time in years after her two adult daughters leave home to live with their father in Toronto. Enjoying an unexpected sense of liberty, she heads to the Ionian coast for a vacation. But she soon finds herself intrigued by Nina, a young mother on the beach, eventually striking up a conversation with her. After Nina confides a dark secret, one seemingly trivial occurrence leads to events that could destroy Nina’s family.

Named one of The Guardian's Best Books of 2016 From the author of My Brilliant Friend This book invites readers into Elena Ferrante's workshop. It offers a glimpse into the drawers of her writing desk, those drawers from which emerged her three early standalone novels and the four installments of My Brilliant Friend, known in English as the Neapolitan Quartet. Consisting of over 20 years of letters, essays, reflections, and interviews, it is a unique depiction of an author who embodies a consummate passion for writing. In these pages Ferrante answers many of her readers' questions. She addresses her choice to stand aside and let her books live autonomous lives. She discusses her thoughts and concerns as her novels are being adapted into films. She talks about the challenge of finding concise answers to interview questions. She explains the joys and the struggles of writing, the anguish of composing a story only to discover that that story isn't good enough. She contemplates her relationship with psychoanalysis, with the cities she has lived in, with motherhood, with feminism, and with her childhood as a storehouse for memories, impressions, and fantasies. The result is a vibrant and intimate self-portrait of a writer at work.

A national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its Italian public when first published. It is the gripping story of a woman's descent into devastating emptiness after being abandoned by her husband with two young children to care for. When she finds herself literally trapped within the four walls of their high-rise apartment, she is forced to confront her ghosts, the potential loss of her own identity, and the possibility that life may never return to normal.

Set in Naples, Italy, this debut novel by New York Times bestselling author Elena Ferrante (My Brilliant Friend, The Days of Abandonment) tells a story about mothers and daughters and the complicated knot of lies, emotions, and shared history than binds them.Following her mother's untimely and mysterious death, Delia embarks on a voyage of discovery through the chaotic, suffocating streets of her native Naples in search of the truth about her family. A series of mysterious telephone calls leads her to compelling and disturbing revelations about her mother's final days.As the New York Times wrote about this novel, "the raging, torrential voice of the author is something rare." Troubling Love is indeed a rare look into the abiding preoccupations and obsessions that bring millions of readers all over the world to her fiction.