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Elena Ferrantes masterpiece, the Neapolitan Novels, available as a beautiful boxed set.

Nothing quite like this has ever been published before, proclaimedThe Guardianabout the Neapolitan Novels in 2014. Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, Elena Ferrante tells the story of a sixty-year friendship between the brilliant and bookish Elena and the fiery, rebellious Lila with unmatched honesty and brilliance.

The four books in this novel cycle constitute a long, remarkable story, one thatVoguedescribed as gutsy and compulsively readable, which readers will return to again and again, and each return will bring with it new revelations.

Elena Ferranteis the author ofThe Days of Abandonment(Europa, 2005),Troubling Love(Europa, 2006),The Lost Daughter(Europa, 2008) and the Neapolitan Quartet (Europa 2012-2015). She is also the author of a children’s picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri,The Beach at Night.

Ann Goldsteinhas translated into English all of Elena Ferrante's books, including theNew York Timesbestseller,The Story of the Lost Child,which was shortlisted for the MAN Booker International Prize. She has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship and is the recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award. She lives in New York.

Praise forThe Neapolitan Novels

Ferrante's Naples Quartet is anything but theater. It is the first genuine literary classic of the 21st century. The Huffington Post

One of modern fictions richest portraits of a friendship.John Powers, Fresh Air,NPR

The Neapolitan Novels tell a single story with the possessive force of an origin myth.Megan OGrady,Vogue

Elena Ferrante is one of the great novelists of our time&This is a new version of the way we live nowl3<