CD Audiobook

The story of the lost child

Record details

ISBN: 1504630122
ISBN: 9781504630122
ISBN: 1504630106
ISBN: 9781504630108
ISBN: 9781504630108
ISBN: 9781504630108
ISBN: 1504630106
Physical Description: 15 audio discs (18 hours, 30 minutes) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
sound disc
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: [Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., [2015]
Copyright: ℗2015

General Note:	Title from container. Compact discs.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Hillary Huber.
Summary, etc.:	Here is the dazzling saga of two women: the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults; many of life's great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship has remained the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up -- a prison of conformity, violence, and inviolable taboos. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received novels. In this final book, she has returned to Naples. Lila, on the other hand, never succeeded in freeing herself from the city of her birth. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity to the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect her neighborhood. Nearness to the world she has always rejected only brings her role as its unacknowledged leader into relief. For Lila is unstoppable, unmanageable, and unforgettable. Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous, the story of a lifelong friendship is told with unmatched honesty and brilliance.
Language Note:	Translated from the Italian.