THE STORY OF THE NEW SURNAME

The mesmerizing four-volume journey, which excites readers in forty countries - a journey that began in 'The Genius Society' - continues in full force in the second volume of the Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante, 'The Story of the New Surname'. The second book spans about seven years of the lives of the two friends, Leila and Elena, from the age of 16 to 23, from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1966. Ferrante continues to bring to life with extraordinary credibility the entire wide gallery of characters of the neighborhood, known to us from the previous volume - in fact, in In the 496 pages of the book, no more than seven or eight new characters were added - but the transformations in my life are all amazing. The book is so successful in landing new sensational surprises again and again, that The Times of London wrote about Ferrante that she is a kind of "Balzac meets 'The Sopranos' and rewrites feminist theory". The unique symbiotic relationship between Leila and Elena is furth