Title: Storia del nuovo cognome
Description: Friends Lila and Elena are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives 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 cruel price that this passage exacts.
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Subjects: choice, conduct of life, dreams, female friendship, fiction, interpersonal relations, Italian fiction, marriage, psychological fiction, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2016-03-27, New York Times bestseller, Marital conflict, Self-perception in women, History
Places: Nápoles (Italia), Naples (Italy), Naples, Pisa, Italy
People: Elena Ferrante, Nino Sarratore, Donato Sarratore, Pietro Airota, Elena Greco, Raffaella Cerullo