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I don’t know why I stopped reading this
quartet of novels after the first one, My Brilliant Friend, which I loved.
Maybe it was the hype? A few years later, I finally picked up Book Two of the Neapolitan Novels and could NOT put it down.
The breadth and depth of the
world of Naples in the 1960s-70s, the violence, the patriarchy, and the deep
and conflicted friendship between Lila and Elena, who need and hate and love
each other, is impossible to summarize. In this story, Lila gets married,
and Elena pursues her education—but so much more!
Sheer life is portrayed with
such force that my lived experience pales in comparison. Suffice it to say, I did
not take a hiatus after finishing this book, and I moved immediately on to the next
one and the last one. Now, I want to reread them all.
The Story of a New Name, the second book of the Neapolitan Quartet, picks up the story where My Brilliant Friend left off.
Lila has recently married and made her entree into the family business; Elena, meanwhile, continues her studies and her exploration of the world beyond the neighbourhood that she so often finds stifling. Love, jealousy, family, freedom, commitment, and above all friendship: these are signs under which both women live out this phase in their stories. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila, and the pressure to excel is at times…
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An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family―but especially love―from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties―successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women―his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.
