TY - BOOK AU - Elena Ferrante AU - Ann Goldstein TI - Those who Leaves and Those Who Stay : Middle Time T2 - Vol 3 THE NEAPOLITAN NOVELS SN - 9781609452339 U1 - O121,3N43,N PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Europa Editions KW - ITALIAN NOVEL-ENGLISH TRANSLATION KW - NAPLES-ITALY KW - NEAPOLITAN NOVEL N2 - In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts of her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of mystery, ignorance and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the nineteen-seventies. Yet they are still very much bound to see each other by a strong, unbreakable bond. ER -