The enigma Elena Ferrante it is still that echo that awakens the avalanche. Because the inexhaustible pen feeds off that obscurantism to relentlessly produce suggestive novels more than ascribed to a specific genre, recognizable in their unmistakable Ferrante wedge.
At times intimate narration that soon breaks its seams to transform itself into something else. The disturbing sensation of taking unpredictable paths make up mystery in the depth and form of its plots.
"Two years before he left home, my father told my mother that I was very ugly." Thus begins this extraordinary novel about the discovery of lies, love and sex, narrated by the unforgettable voice of Giovanna, a young woman determined to meet her Aunt Vittoria, incomprehensibly erased from conversations and photo albums. This will unknowingly unleash the collapse of his intellectual and bourgeois family, perfect only in appearance.
Absolute master of intrigue, Ferrante sows the plot of surprises and prodigiously knots the mysterious family and love story around a bracelet that is passed from hand to hand. No one like her to describe the complexity of human passions and all the intermittences of thought and heart.
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