Ranked #3 in Italy, Ranked #9 in Italian — see more rankings.
In 2012, Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend introduced readers to the unforgettable Elena and Lila, whose lifelong friendship provides the backbone for the Neapolitan Novels. The Story of a New Name is the second book in this series. With these books, which the New Yorker's James Wood described as "large, captivating, amiably peopled ... a beautiful and delicate tale of confluence and reversal," Ferrante proves herself to be one of Italy's most accomplished storytellers. She writes vividly about a specific neighborhood of Naples from the late-1950s through to the... more
Rankings by Category
The Story of a New Name (The Neapolitan Novels, #2) is ranked in the following categories:
- #23 in Italian History
- #39 in Translated