Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa,
2005), Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), The Lost Daughter (Europa,
2008), and the four novels known as the Neapolitan Quartet (My
Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and
Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child) which were
published by Europa Editions between 2012 and 2015. My Brilliant
Friend, the HBO series directed by Saverio Costanzo, premiered in
2018. Ferrante is also the author of Frantumaglia: A Writer’s
Journey (Europa, 2016), a children’s picture book illustrated by
Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night (Europa, 2016), and a collection of
personal essays illustrated by Andrea Ucini entitled Incidental
Inventions (Europa, 2019). The Lost Daughter will be made into a
feature film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia
Colman. Her most recent novel is The Lying Life of Adults (Europa,
2020).
Ann Goldstein is one of the most accomplished translators from the
Italian working today. Best known for her translations of Elena
Ferrante’s oeuvre, she has also translated novels by Primo Levi,
Pierpaolo Pasolini, Alessandro Baricco and other classic and
contemporary Italian writers.
"Ferrante's novels are tactile and sensual, visceral and
dizzying."
*The Guardian*
"It’s Leda’s voice that’s hypnotic, and it’s the writing that makes
it that way. Ferrante can do a woman’s interior dialogue like no
one else, with a ferocity that is shockingly honest, unnervingly
blunt"
*Booklist*
"Ferrante's gift for psychological horror renders it immediate and
visceral"
*The New Yorker*
"Ferrante is a hypnotist."
*The Spectator*
"[Ferrante] describes the female experience so intimately and so
vividly that the reader feels like she could (and should) know the
writer personally."
*New York Magazine*
“A raw, gritty and gripping meditation of the difficulties of
motherhood.”
*The Observer*
“An absorbingly shaped psychological drama, built around a single
traumatising event from which the action metastasises.”
*The Guardian*
“Subtly daring.”
*The Financial Times*
“Entirely gripping….. a literary film with a literary script.”
*The Spectator*
“Sadness is lanced through the heart of Gyllenhaal’s film, which
she both adapted and directed, but it’s rich and luxurious in its
texture.”
*The Independent*
“Adapted from Elena Ferrante’s novel of the same name, The Lost
Daughter is a heady exercise in restraint."
*NME*
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