{"id":20597,"date":"2016-11-05T22:53:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T21:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20597"},"modified":"2016-11-06T00:05:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T23:05:04","slug":"a-review-of-the-italian-novel-the-story-of-the-lost-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20597","title":{"rendered":"A review of the Italian novel \u201cThe Story Of The Lost Child\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s taken me almost three months, but I&#8217;ve finally completed my summer\/autumn reading project: to read the four works and 1700 pages that make up the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neapolitan_Novels\">\u2018Neapolitan Novels\u2019<\/a>, an acclaimed series by the Italian author Elena Ferrante.<\/p>\n<p>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, who becomes an accomplished writer and Raffaella Cerullo, known as Lila, whose never leaves Naples.<\/p>\n<p>The first novel in the series is called <em>\u201cMy Brilliant Friend\u201d<\/em> and I reviewed it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#Ferrante1\">here<\/a>. The second novel is titled <em>\u201cThe Story Of A New Name\u201d<\/em> and you can read my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#Ferrante2\">here<\/a>. The third novel is\u00a0<em>\u201cThose Who Leave And Those Who Stay\u201d<\/em> and I reviewed it\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#Ferrante3\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just concluded the fourth and final novel in the chronicle which is called <em>&#8220;The Story Of The Lost Child&#8221;<\/em> and you&#8217;ll find my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#Ferrante4\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s taken me almost three months, but I&#8217;ve finally completed my summer\/autumn reading project: to read the four works and 1700 pages that make up the \u2018Neapolitan Novels\u2019, 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20597"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20604,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20597\/revisions\/20604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}