Soon to be an HBO series, the follow-up to My Brilliant Friend in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted family epic by Italy's most beloved and acclaimed writer, Elena Ferrante, "one of the great novelists of our time." (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times)
In The Story of a New Name, Lila has recently married and made...

"Germany, 1943: Twenty-six-year-old Rosa Sauer's parents are gone, and her husband is fighting on the front lines when she is conscripted to be one of Hitler's tasters. Twice a day, she and nine other women go to his secret headquarters, the Wolf's Lair, to eat his meals before he does forming a strange sisterhood"--

"Here is the conclusion of the dazzling saga of two friends, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Theirs is a long and remarkable story that readers will return to again and again, and, like Elena and Lila themselves, every return will bring with it new discoveries"--From the publisher's web site.

"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,...

"A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors set against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, this story of a lifelong friendship is told with unmatched honesty. Lila and Elena clash, drift apart, reconcile, and clash again, in the process revealing new facets of their friendship. With My Brilliant Friend Ferrante begins the rich, intense, and generous-hearted portrait...