{"product_id":"nina-perdida-la-serie","title":"The Lost Girl (Two Friends 4)","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLa niña perdida\u003c\/i\u003e brings to a close \"Two Friends,\" the story of two friends who were born in Naples in the mid-20th century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA MEMORABLE SAGA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\"Ferrante is a born storyteller, as extraordinary and addictive as my also beloved John Irving, a classic writer in the wonderful sense of the word.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMilena Busquets\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLina and Elena are now adults and have taken different paths: Elena left Naples to marry and become a successful writer in Florence. Only a rekindled youthful love will bring her back to Naples, where Lina awaits her. Lina is now a mother and has also succeeded in her own way in the local business. Elena is the cultured lady, Lina is seemingly the neighborhood woman, ignorant and unwilling to refinement, but pure intelligence and intuition are on Lina's side.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvents accelerate when one day, Lina's daughter suddenly disappears: murder, kidnapping, death? No one knows, and the neighborhood whispers. Since then, Lina is no longer the same and madness lurks. Everything – men, women, the landscape, the entire city of Naples – become witnesses to the grief of a mother who doesn't know how to cry and who one day will also disappear, bringing the reader back to the first pages of this splendid saga.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntelligence, contained emotion, writing that adapts to events and fits the plot like a glove: everything is in these pages where one of the most brilliant works of the 21st century has been woven.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I only wanted to tell the lives of two women. And to do so, it was necessary for me to filter history into the background of their existences, the things that in one way or another had to do with them. I would like the story to help contemplate in narrative terms a piece of Italian history.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElena Ferrante\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews by authors, press, and celebrities praising Elena Ferrante's work:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Elena Ferrante is a vice that spreads from reader to reader.\"\u003cbr\u003eMarian Izaguirre\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Elena Ferrante's novels have kept me tied to my armchair, reading and celebrating pages where emotion is never trivial: the pain and joy of feeling alive are there for the reader to make their own, and everything said is necessary, without a single adjective being superfluous or missing.\"\u003cbr\u003eJuan Marsé\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The wonderful thing about the Ferrante enigma is that we can concentrate only on her works.\"\u003cbr\u003eRoberto Saviano\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I love Lenù so much... I cried reading her.\"\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Franzen\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I read the \u003ci\u003eTwo Friends\u003c\/i\u003e saga when they came out and I remember waiting for the third and fourth to be translated into English and rushing to the bookstore to buy them as soon as they were available.\"\u003cbr\u003eMaggie Gyllenhaal\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Elena Ferrante has written extraordinary, indecently honest novels (...) With her writing, she strips the skin off routine.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"She is surely the most transcendent revelation of European narrative in the last quarter century.\"\u003cbr\u003eRobert Saladrigas, \u003ci\u003eLa Vanguardia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Elena Ferrante may be one of the best authors you've ever heard of.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An epic love story, destined to be one of the great works of Western literature.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I... have no words to describe what it feels like to discover a treasure like this. Those of you who enjoy reading will understand me. How did I not know Elena Ferrante? 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