Soon to be a NETFLIX Original Series.
In The Lying Life of Adults , readers will discover another gripping, highly addictive, and totally unforgettable Neapolitan story..
With this new novel, she proves once again that she deserves her many accolades.
Named one of the most influential people of the year in 2016 by TIME Magazine and frequently touted as a future Nobel Prize-winner, Elena Ferrante has become one of the world\'s most read and beloved twenty-first century writers.
She moves between these two cities, disoriented by the fact that, whether high or low, neither city seems to offer answers or escape.
Giovanna is searching for her true reflection in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: the Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and the Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity.
But can it be true? Is she really changing? Will she turn out like her despised Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father have spent their whole lives avoiding and deriding? There must be a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is.
Giovanna, he says, is looking more like her Aunt Vittoria every day.
There\'s no doubt the publication of The Lying Life of Adults ] will be the literary event of the year.-- Elle Giovanna\'s pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks.
A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL set in a divided Naples by Elena FERRANTE, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter .
Soon to be a NETFLIX Original Series
