📚Book Discussion: The Story of a New Name - Book 2 (Neapolitan Quartet) 🎙

📖 The Story of a New Name

The story follows Lila and Elena as they step into adulthood, carrying with them the weight of their neighbourhood and their shared past. Lila is bound to marriage and work, her brilliance pressed into narrow spaces, while Elena moves outward through study, uneasy with both ambition and belonging. Their friendship remains a force of love and tension, shaping how each understands herself and the other. Around them, Naples tightens and shifts, revealing how difficult it is to change one’s life without losing something essential.

📚 About the series

Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, also known as the Neapolitan Quartet, is a single 1,700 page novel in four volumes about the lives of and relationship between two girls becoming women in Naples: Lina and Elena. The four volumes (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child) were published by Europa Editions in English between 2012 and 2015. The New York Times has named My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante the best book of the 21st century, cementing the series' status as a modern literary masterpiece that chronicles a complex female friendship against the backdrop of post-war Naples.

As part of the group, we will read 4 books with adequate spacing between each one. This is the second meetup for the series. I'm looking forward to the discussions 😊

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I hope to see you all soon! 😊