Orna, frisch geschiedene Mutter eines zehnjährigen Jungen, meldet sich auf einer Online-Dating-Plattform an, auch wenn sich das Flirten mit anderen Männern noch sehr fremd anfühlt. Emilia ist fremd in…
“Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly. The sentence was uttered under his breath, in the apartment that my parents, newly married, had bought in Rione Alto, a…
In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her abusive hu…
"Nothing quite like this has ever been published before," proclaimed The Guardian about the Neapolitan novels in 2014. Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a wor…
