A review of the Italian novel “The Story Of A New Name”
My summer reading project is to complete as much as possible of the four works that make up the ‘Neapolitan Novels’, an acclaimed series by the Italian author Elena Ferrante.
This is a saga of the 60-year friendship between two girls from a poor neighbourhood of Naples after the Second World War: the narrator Elena Greco, known as Lenu, whose father is a porter and Raffaella Cerullo, known as Lila, whose father is a shoemaker.
The first novel in the series is called “My Brilliant Friend” and I reviewed it here. I’ve now finished the second novel which is titled “The Story Of A New Name” and you can read my review here.