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The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante review – a bracing return to Naples – The Guardian
Two generations on from Lenù and Lila, a young girl’s reunion with an estranged aunt offers a compelling story of family, desire and betrayal
Sinking into the new Elena Ferrante, I had a sudden sense of the intense pleasure Dickenss readers must have experienced at receiving the latest monthly instalment of one of his novels. How bracing to be back in Ferrantes Neapolitan world, where troubling passions and moral ambiguity stalk characters of whatever gender, class or degree of righteous illumination. How exhilarating to engage once more with her textured depictions of family life, of friendships and loves striated by hate and the dem…
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