Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
by Elena Ferrante · 2013
Literary Fiction · ranked #99 in category
The third Neapolitan novel follows Elena and Lila through the upheaval of the 1970s — Elena as a published novelist, Lila working in squalid factory conditions. Ferrante's novel is about how people escape poverty and what they give up in the process — and about whether the one who leaves can ever truly leave.
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