The Story of a New Name
The Neapolitan Novels: Book #2
By Elena Ferrante & Ann Goldstein
Narrated by Hillary Huber / 19 hours 3 minutes
The Story of a New Name follows Elena Ferrante's critically acclaimed My Brilliant Friend, featuring Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties, and marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. These young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times while driving them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed friendship at the center of their emotional lives, the two girls mature into women, paying the sometimes cruel price that this passage exacts.
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The Neapolitan Novels Series
My Brilliant Friend
By: Elena Ferrante & Ann Goldstein
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s mostacclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, andgenerous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila, who represent the story of a nation and the nature of friendship.
The story begins inthe 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples.Growing up on these tough... Read More »
The Story of a New Name
By: Elena Ferrante & Ann Goldstein
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 19 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The Story of a New Name follows Elena Ferrante's critically acclaimed My Brilliant Friend, featuring Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties, and marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. These young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at... Read More »
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
By: Elena Ferrante & Ann Goldstein
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 16 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The incredible story continues in book three of thecritically acclaimed Neapolitan novels!
In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, thetwo girls whom readers first met in MyBrilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has ayoung son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought andnow works as a common... Read More »
The Story of the Lost Child
By: Elena Ferrante & Ann Goldstein
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 18 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
"Nothing quite like this has ever been published before," proclaimed the Guardian about the Neapolitan Novels in 2014. The first book in the series, My Brilliant Friend, was a New York Times bestseller. Book three was a Times bestseller and a Notable Book of the Year. It was named a best book of 2014 twenty-five times, including in the Times... Read More »
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