Ranked #5 in Italy, Ranked #12 in Italian — see more rankings.
Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of our most compelling, insightful, and stylish contemporary authors has grown enormously. She has gained admirers among authors--Jhumpa Lahiri, Elizabeth Strout, Claire Messud, to name a few--and critics--James Wood, John Freeman, Eugenia Williamson, for example. But her most resounding success has undoubtedly been with readers, who have discovered in Ferrante a writer who speaks with great power and beauty of the mysteries of belonging, human relationships, love, family, and... more
Rankings by Category
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (The Neapolitan Novels, #3) is ranked in the following categories:
- #28 in Italian History
- #57 in Translated