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Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 11 August 2022

Writing this close to the truth of how we feel in our heads is rarely voiced. I haven’t yet read anything like this quartet.. an amazing tale of Lenu & Lila’s childhood friendship through the years till their twilight years. A must read.

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DoonOracle

The climactic final movement of the four-part Neapolitan Quartet which will leave you gasping for breath

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 9 October 2016

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The climactic final episode of the Neapolitan Quartet of novels. Stunning in its development and in Ferrante's delivery. The finale will leave you gasping for breath as you anticipate Lila's disappearance with which the first of the Quartet starts. And even then there is a surprise, closing the loop of the opening friendship as small children. What a pity there is no more. And with the apparent "discovery" of Ferrante's identity, unlikely to be any more of this genre.

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Preea V Kumar

Four Stars

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 30 April 2017

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Love the labyrinth of emotions the layers the descriptions all so real so intense ..transports you right there

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Nice

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 6 February 2017

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A real good book. Worth reaing.

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sally tarbox

"The only things that count are work and Aunt Lina; there's nothing that's not swallowed up inside them"

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 2 February 2017

Final volume of Ferrante's fabulous Neapolitan series, and it's utterly brilliant, taking the reader back to the first book.
This follows the two friends from their 30s to their 60s; narrator Elena is becoming an increasingly successful author, while Lila remains in the same Naples neighbourhood, running a computer business. Both mothers already, they each fall pregnant again.... Much of this story focusses on the impact their children have on their lives; the sadness as the beautiful young people of the first couple of volumes grow old and suffer various problems.
But these are not just light reading - the characters are complex and this truly is great writing.
Having read all four books over just a few weeks, I could gladly re-read them all.

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Singh, R.

A Farewell

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 31 March 2021

I don't know if I have the right words to express how I feel after having read this final instalment to the Neapolitan Quartet. I had kept stalling the book because I did not want to end my relations with Lenu and Lila so soon. I had known them, just last year, in June, when I read the first book. Today, with four books down, it feels like a lifetime. The author has really taken me a down a memory lane, not just of two Italian girls but also their neighbourhood and their beloved, violent city, Naples that has grown and sighed with them. In this book, we find the young Neapolitan boys and girls mature into middle-aged adults travelling into old age with their lives connecting and disconnecting like channels of river running into and away from each other. As Lenu had put it, it really was the 'most painful' of all the other novels in the Quartet. I kept holding on to the book, not for a second wanting to put it down. After ages, reading felt like breathing, almost. I wanted to consume it as fast as I could but somewhere I felt it was the novel that was consuming me. It made me pause, re-read parts of it. Thoughts raced through my mind, submerging me deeper into the changing city. Ferrante drew me into their lives, the politics that governed their existence and offered insights that stopped me and had me glossing over the past of these characters and my life and the social space I inhabit. I don't think I have anything else to say because it would only spoil your experience of this Quartet. If you want to know what lifelong friendship feels like, this is the book you should read. Watch the show/ or let yourself drown into the author's imagination of Naples through the four books. For now, I wish farewell to Lenu and Lila with a heart heavy by the sorrow of parting and never meeting again.

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Swapna Rajagopal

Love these books and the characters

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 17 December 2022

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I got hooked on the show, and the third season left at such a cliffhanger that I couldn't wait. I devoured all four books in less than a month!! So good. I have to say the show is pretty faithful to the books, but the writing, my God!!! Every character is so rich and layered, they really jump out of the pages.

The friendship between Elena and Lila is so beautiful and so real. Elena, always insecure, doubting herself, and always needing that extra nudge from Lila. And Lila, being the headstrong woman she is, never once doubting herself, always throwing her stock behind her best friend. They are like two sides of the same coin.

In her casual, engaging style, Ferante takes us through the history of Italy over almost six decades, giving us a view of Italy that we seldom get. It is an incredible feat. She also gives us a look into the joys and tedium of motherhood that most don't talk about. The juxtapositon of joy and guilt when Elena gets to follow her dreams is so beautifully described.

Now that I'm done, I'm going to miss these strong incredible women and strangely even Naples!

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Carolina Port

Brilhante!

Reviewed in Brazil 🇧🇷 on 1 January 2023

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Genial.

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Kindle Customer

Great read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 30 January 2023

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This author keeps you ! She makes you feel as if you're there. Participating in the story as the main character.

Benson

In good condition and arrived quickly.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 1 February 2023

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In good condition and arrived quickly.

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