Elena Ferrante makes a brilliant return to familiar territory – Sydney Morning Herald

All her life Giovanna has heard Andrea, her father, speak of his sister, Vittoria, as a woman “in whom ugliness and spite were combined to perfection”. Andrea is refined and beautiful. And until those overheard words Giovanna believes that her father thought that she, too, was beautiful in every detail. The opposite to his sister in every detail.
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The intelligent girl emerging from a blissful childhood of being loved, and loving in return, is engulfed by another emotion. Anxiety. She in…

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