The focus of the story is the long, complicated relationship of two Neapolitan women: Elena Greco and her "brilliant friend" Raffaella Cerullo, called Lila. Elena is the narrator, and she begins ...

and also of our some of our earliest female friendships, both of which carry the same levels of intensity. It is the latter of which Elena Ferrante captures so masterfully in the Neapolitan novels ...

The Neapolitan novels, as the Italian author’s beloved tetralogy is called, chronicle the friendship between two ambitious young women over the course of 50 years and some 1500 pages.

READ, GUYS.). In the four Neapolitan Novels (with September 1's The Story of the Lost Child wrapping up the quartet), Ferrante examines female friendship on a cellular level. I got a look into the ...

a woman’s touch is better — especially for the Neapolitan-style pizza she makes at her Hell’s Kitchen restaurant, Don Antonio. “Women have less power in their hands and they can control ...

In the Neapolitan dialect of southern Italy ... Davis Mele says that he and his brothers knew Mormile would be a good fit for Pummarola right away. “We saw that he was very humble, and ...