The Story of the Lost Child

“Elena Ferrante’s novels have a driving and unconventional narrative power that has gripped readers across a wide cultural range…the last of the quartet The Story of the Lost Child, which has just been longlisted for the Man Booker International prize, is the best.”

* Margaret Drabble, The Guardian *

“This final book in Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet brings a phenomenal literary enterprise to an arresting conclusion.”

* The Sunday Times *

“A tribute to feminism and female friendship in mid-20th-century Naples.”

* The Economist *

“The final installation of her Neapolitan quartet, was every bit as sinister and compelling as its predecessors, a vivid and haunting portrait of female friendship that confirms Ferrante as one of the masters of her craft.”

* Alex Preston, The Guardian *

“The first work worthy of the Nobel prize to have come out of Italy for many decades.”

* The Observer *

Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008), and the international best-selling Neapolitan Quartet. She is also the author of Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey; a children’s picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night, and, most recently, a collection of essays entitled Incidental Inventions (Europa, 2019).

Ann Goldstein is one of the most accomplished translators from the Italian working today. Best known for her translations of Elena Ferrante’s oeuvre, she has also translated novels by Primo Levi, Pierpaolo Pasolini and many more.