Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay (The Neapolitan Novels, #3) (Neapolitan Quartet)

by Elena Ferrante

In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila have become women. Both have attempted pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the1970s. Yet they are still very much bound to each other by a strong, unbreakable bond. From the bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante.

• ISBN10: 160945233X
• ISBN13: 9781609452339
• Publish Date: 18 September 2014 (first published 2 September 2014)
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 4 March 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Europa Editions
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 424
• Language: English

Reviews

[clementine]

This is my favourite book in the series so far; the political commentary is absolutely searing, and it feels like the first two novels were truly building to this point. Ferrante exposes the hypocrisy of the educated upper middle class’s socialist activism excluding and even harming those they claim to liberate. And as Elena struggles to live up to the hype of her first book in the wake of motherhood and domestic duty, she develops a true political consciousness not based on regurgitating others’ opinions. This series has always brilliantly explored how women’s minds are so often wasted, nowhere more explicitly than in this novel.