Las Deudas del Cuerpo / Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Sigue las vivencias de las protagonistas de la saga Dos amigas una historia de amistad que recorre los a os m s importantes del siglo XX. UNA SAGA MEMORABLE rase una vez dos ni as, Elena y Lila, que nacieron en 1944 en un barrio pobre de la ciudad de N poles, y desde entonces su historia ha sido el hilo conductor de esta espl ndida saga napolitana que ahora llega a su tercera entrega. Lila se cas muy joven con el hombre m s adinerado del barrio y poco tard en dejarlo. Ahora vive en un lugar miserable, pero su ingenio no ha mermado; solo se ha transformado en rabia. Es quiz este odio lo que la llevar a capitanear las revueltas en la f brica y a negarse a una convivencia pac fica y modesta con su nuevo compa ero. Elena, en cambio, ha continuado con los estudios e incluso ha escrito una novela. Ahora vive entre N poles y Pisa, y se ha casado con un profesor de la Universidad de Florencia.

As , a primera vista, nada une ya a las dos amigas, pero el barrio de N poles donde fueron ni as a n las reclama, las viejas costumbres las devuelven a un tiempo que ya se fue, y la vida se cobra su precio.



ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Soon to be an HBO series, book three in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one of today's most beloved and acclaimed writers, Elena Ferrante, "one of the great novelists of our time." (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times) In the third book in the Neapolitan quartet, 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 husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the nineteen-seventies. Yet they are still very much bound to each other by a strong, unbreakable bond. Ferrante is one of the world's great storytellers. With the Neapolitan quartet she has given her readers an abundant, generous, and masterfully plotted page-turner that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight readers for many generations to come.