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In this powerful novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend, fourteen-year-old Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another."Always, Ferrante’s fiction reminds us that sometimes you need someone else to help gather the scattered fragments of your existence." - Merve Emre, The AtlanticGiovanna’s pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is.Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity. She moves from one to the other in search of the truth, but neither city seems to offer answers or escape."Ferrante revisits previously explored themes - violence against women, female friendships,

Who reads The Lying Life Of Adults?

Author

Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein

Publisher

Europa Editions (UK) Ltd

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781787703124

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Romance, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.9 / 5 (8,646 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14