Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

"Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay continues Ferrante's raw exploration of female friendship and ambition, emotional violence and the enduring scars of the second world war." * The Guardian * "There is a savage honesty to the work of Elena Ferrante that is both unsettling and comforting at once. Here is an author who has poured every ounce of herself onto the page." * Irish Times * The older you get, the harder it is to recapture the intoxicating sense of discovery that comes when you first read George Eliot, Nabokov, Tolstoy or Colette. But this year it came again when I read Elena Ferrantes remarkable Neapolitan novels, chronicling a friendship between two women, Lila and Elena, that lasts for more than six decades. * The New Statesman * "Tolstoyan in its sweep and ambition.... Novel by novel, Ferrantes series is building into one of the great achievements of modern literature." * The Independent * "Ferrante depicts the pain of uncertainty but also its potential." * The Times Literary Supplement * "Nothing you read about Elena Ferrante's work prepares you for the ferocity of it." * The New York Times *

Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008), and the four novels known as the Neapolitan Quartet (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child) which were published by Europa Editions between 2012 and 2015. My Brilliant Friend, the HBO series directed by Saverio Costanzo, premiered in 2018. Ferrante is also the author of Frantumaglia: A Writers Journey (Europa, 2016), a childrens picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night (Europa, 2016), and a collection of personal essays illustrated by Andrea Ucini entitled Incidental Inventions (Europa, 2019). The Lost Daughter was made into a feature film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia Colman. Her most recent novel is The Lying Life of Adults (Europa, 2020). In the Margins, a collection of original essays on reading and writing, was published by Europa in 2022. Ann Goldstein is one of the most accomplished translators from the Italian working today. Best known for her translations of Elena Ferrantes oeuvre, she has also translated novels by Primo Levi, Pierpaolo Pasolini, Alessandro Baricco and other classic and contemporary Italian writers.