Elena Ferrante has 26 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 18 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.3★ across 686 ratings. The most-rated is My Brilliant Friend.
La vita bugiarda degli adulti
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Il bel viso della bambina Giovanna si è trasformato, sta diventando quello di una brutta adolescente. Ma è proprio così? E in quale specchio bisogna guardare per ritrovarsi e salvarsi? La ricerca di un nuovo volto oscilla tra due Napoli consanguinee che però si temono e si detestano: la Napoli di sopra, che s'è attribuita una maschera fine, e quella di sotto, che si finge smodata, triviale. Giovanna oscilla tra alto e basso, in una città che pare non offrire né risposte né scampo.
©2019 Edizioni E/O (P)2020 Emons Italia S.r.l. - Edizioni E/O S.r.l.
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La vida mentirosa de los adultos [The Lying Life of Adults]
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La autora de la saga Dos Amigas vuelve para recordarnos por qué fascina a 30,000,000 de personas en 42 países y es el mayor enigma de la literatura actual. "Dos años antes de irse de casa, mi padre le dijo a mi madre que yo era muy fea." Así empieza esta novela extraordinaria sobre el descubrimiento de la mentira, el amor y el sexo, narrada por la inolvidable voz de Giovanna, una joven empeñada en conocer a su tía Vittoria, incomprensiblemente borrada de las conversaciones y álbumes de fotografías. Con ello desencadenará sin saberlo el desmoronamiento de su familia intelectual y burguesa, perfecta solo en apariencia. Maestra absoluta de la intriga, Ferrante siembra la trama de sorpresas y anuda prodigiosamente la misteriosa historia familiar y amorosa en torno a una pulsera que pasa de mano en mano. Nadie como ella para describir la complejidad de las pasiones humanas y todas las intermitencias del pensamiento y el corazón. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2019 Elena Ferrante (P)2020 Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U.
Incidental Inventions
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Elena Ferrante is the best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend, now an HBO original series. Collected here for the first time are the seeds of future novels, the timely reflections of this internationally beloved storyteller, the abiding preoccupations of a writer who has been called “one of the great novelists of our time” (New York Times). “This is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me...I have written as an author of novels, taking on matters that are important to me and that - if I have the will and the time - I’d like to develop within real narrative mechanisms.” With these words, Elena Ferrante bid farewell to her year-long collaboration with the Guardian newspaper. For a full year, she wrote weekly articles, the subjects of which had been suggested by Guardian editors, making the writing process a sort of prolonged interlocution. The subjects ranged from first love to climate change, from enmity among women to the experience of seeing her novels adapted for film and TV. Translated by Ann Goldstein, the acclaimed translator of Ferrante’s novels, this volume is a must for all curious listeners.
©2019 Edizioni e/o. Translation © 2019 Europa Editions (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing
Troubling Love
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Following her mother's untimely and mysterious death, Delia embarks on a voyage of discovery through the streets of her native Naples searching for the truth about her family. A series of mysterious telephone calls leads her to compelling and disturbing revelations about her mother's final days. This stylish novel from the author of The Days of Abandonment is set in a beguiling but often hostile Naples, whose chaotic, suffocating streets become one of the book's central motifs. A story about mothers and daughters and the complicated knot of lies and emotions that binds them, it is a must-listen.
©2015 Elena Ferrante (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Thalia Book Club: Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels
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In honor of the release of the concluding installment in the Neapolitan Novels, John Waters, Amy Ryan, Sonali Deraniyagala, Elizabeth Strout, Judith Thurman, and Parul Sehgal celebrate the author with readings and discussion. Hosted by Amanda Stern.
©2015 Symphony Space (P)2015 Symphony Space
The Lost Daughter
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From the author of The Days of Abandonment comes The Lost Daughter, Elena Ferrante's most compelling and perceptive meditation on womanhood and motherhood yet. Leda, a middle-aged divorcee, is alone for the first time in years when her daughters leave home to live with their father. Her initial, unexpected sense of liberty turns to ferocious introspection following a seemingly trivial occurrence. Throughout the novel, Ferrante's language is as finely tuned and intense as ever, and she treats her theme with a fierce, candid tenacity.
©2006 Edizioni E/O. Translation ©2008 by Europa Editions (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.