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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

The Neapolitan Novels, Book 3

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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Written by: Elena Ferrante
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
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In the third book in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, Elena and Lila have grown into womanhood.

Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons.

Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance, and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up for women during the 1970s. And yet, they are still very much bound to each other in a book that “shows off Ferrante’s strong storytelling ability and will leave readers eager for the final volume of the series” (Library Journal).

©2015 Elena Ferrante (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction Sagas Women's Fiction

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Absolutely brilliant

A Narration that rbrings the story alive. Excellent voice modulation that heightens the impact of every work.

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Further into the lives of Elena and Lila we go

This is the third of the Neapolitan series where we follow Elena and Lila in their late 20s and early 30s. It is a book filled with chaos and disorder, narrating the violent politics of the 1970s and the characters’ own inner violence. We read about loveless marriages and unusual relationships. We delve deeper and deeper into the lives of the two women and those whose lives are touched by theirs. The Neapolitan novels are a journey and this was a compelling part of it. The narration is well done.

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