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Words Without Borders: The Neopolitan Novels on the Holiday Reading List 2014

Date: Dec 15 2014

WWB’s Holiday Reading List

By The Editors

Still looking for the perfect gift for your international literature-loving friends and family? Let WWB's editors, reviewers, and contributors help!

Bud Parr

Neopolitan Novels, by Elena Ferrante (Europa Editions)
Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.

Elena Ferrante layers story upon story to create a montage-like effect with her writing. The result is a film in your head of the lives of two women and their Italian village that's at once provincial and exotic for its sense of a lost time.

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