Named the #1 Book of the 21st Century by the New York Times: The "enduring classic" about the lifelong friendship of two women from Naples ( The Atlantic).Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante's four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery and unforgettable Lila and the bookish narrator, Elena, become women, wives, mothers, and leaders, all the while ma...

A woman goes home to Naples after her mother's mysterious death in a "tour de force" by the New York Times–bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend ( Seattle Times ).Following her mother's untimely and unexplained drowning, which was preceded by a series of strange phone calls, forty-five-year-old Delia leaves Rome and embarks on a voyage of discovery through the beguiling yet often hostile streets of he...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDLiterary Hub Notable Small Press Book of 2025Winner of the 2024 Strega Prize and the 2024 Youth Strega Prize★ “A gut-wrenching excavation of generational trauma... this contemplative novel offers a subtle but piercing meditation on the complex dynamics between parents and children.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)Acclai...

"One of the best Italian novels of the year" in a pitch-perfect rendering in English by Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante's translator ( Huffington Post, Italy).Winner of the Campiello PrizeA 2019 Best Book of the Year ( The Washington Post Kirkus Reviews Dallas Morning News)Told with an immediacy and a rare expressive intensity that has earned it countless adoring readers and one of Italy's most prestigi...

**Two stories converge in the aftermath of the devastating 1908 earthquake in Sicily and Calabria: a young woman sees a chance to avoid her impending arranged marriage and a boy manages to escape from the influence of an abusive mother on the verge of madness.This new award-winning novel is from Nadia Terranova, author of Farewell Ghosts, a finalist for the 2019 Premio Strega, and is translated by Ann Goldstein, who also was the translator of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan qu...

The year is 1861. Hervé Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel farther, beyond the edge of the known, to a country legendary for the quality of its silk and its hostility to foreigners: Japan.There Joncour meets a woman. They do not touch; they do not even speak. And he cannot read the note she sends him until he has returned to his own country. But in the moment he does, Joncour is possessed.

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year**“Powerful.” —The New Yorker“Brilliant.” —The Wall Street Journal"Astounding." —NPR“Forceful, clear and morally engaged.” —The Washington Post“Subversive.” —The New York Times Book Review"An exquisite, tormented howl." —The Financial Times"Quick, propulsive, and addictive." —Los Angeles Review of Books“Gr...

Now a major motion picture directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Paul Mescal, and Peter Sarsgaard**Another penetrating Neapolitan story from New York Times–bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of Adults.Leda, a middle-aged divorcée, is alone for the first time in years after her two adult daughters leave home to live with their father in Toronto. Enjoying an unexpe...

From the New York Times–bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, this novel of a deserted wife's descent into despair—and rage—is "a masterpiece" ( The Philadelphia Inquirer).One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyThe Days of Abandonment is the gripping story of an Italian woman's experiences after being suddenly left by her husband after fifteen years of marriage. With two...

A rediscovered classic from 1935, the Cuban-Italian author’s debut collection of 18 stories brings to life the final years of a bygone world.Convinced that he shares a destiny with the doomed protagonist of a serialized novel, a man begs its author to change the ending.A 15-year-old boy experiences the sweet melancholy of an unrequited first love, as his older cousin prepares for her wedding in the country.A small detail shatters the illusions of a ...

In one volume, the New York Times–bestselling epic about hardship and female friendship in postwar Naples that has sold over five million copies.Beginning with My Brilliant Friend, the four Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante follow Elena and Lila, from their rough-edged upbringing in Naples, Italy, not long after WWII, through the many stages of their lives—and along paths that diverge wildly. Sometimes they are separated by jealousy or hostility...

From the Pulitzer Prize winner, a surprising, powerful and eloquent non-fiction debut.In Other Words is at heart a love story—of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. And although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterward, true mastery had alwa...