“Nothing quite like this has ever been published before,” proclaimed The Guardian about the Neapolitan novels.
The complete four-volume boxed set of the New York Times–bestselling epic about hardship and female friendship in postwar Naples that has sold over five million copies.
Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, Elena Ferrante tells the story of a sixty-year friendship between the brilliant and bookish Elena and the fiery, rebellious Lila with unmatched honesty and brilliance. Beginning with My Brilliant Friend, the four Neapolitan Novels follow Elena’s and Lila’s rough-edged upbringing in Italy not long after WWII, through the many stages of their lives—and along paths that diverge wildly. Sometimes they are separated by jealousy or hostility or physical distance, but the bond between them is unbreakable, for better or for worse.
“Imagine if Jane Austen got angry and you’ll have some idea of how explosive these works are.” —The Australian
“An enduring masterpiece.” —The Atlantic
The four books in this novel cycle constitute a long, remarkable story, one that Vogue described as “gutsy and compulsively readable,” which readers will return to again and again, and each return will bring with it new revelations.