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Sono 27 gli editori che l’1 settembre hanno pubblicato in contemporanea La vita bugiarda degli adulti. Bosnia Herzegovina (Buybook), Brasile (Intrinseca), Bulgaria (Colibri), Catalogna (La Campana), Croazia (Profil), Repubblica Ceca (Prostor), Danimarca (C&K), Germania (Suhrkamp), Grecia (Patakis), Ungheria (Park Publishing), Islanda (Benedikt), Israele (Hakibutz), Corea (Hanglisa Rights), Libano (Dar al Adab), Lituania (Alma Litera), Paesi Bassi (Wereldbibliotheek), Norvegia (Samlaget), Polonia (Sonia Draga), Portogallo (Relogio d’agua), Romania (Pandora Publishing), Russia (Corpus Publishing – AST), Serbia (Booka), Cecoslovacchia (Inaque), Spagna e Sudamerica (Lumen), Svezia (Norstedts), Turchia (Alfa Basim), US e UK (Europa Editions).
Le opere di Elena Ferrante sono state pubblicate in 45 lingue del mondo per un totale di oltre 15 milioni di copie. I diritti della Vita bugiarda degli adulti sono stati venduti in 38 paesi ed è già in preparazione una serie internazionale Netflix/Fandango. In Italia ne sono state vendute 250.000 copie.
Le prime reazioni della stampa internazionale
★ «A girl, a city, an inhospitable society: Ferrante’s formula works again!»
Kirkus Reviews(Starred Review)
★ «Ferrante’s ability to draw in her readers remains unparalleled…The novel simmers with overt rage toward parental deception, teachers’ expectations and society’s impossible ideals of beauty and behavior».
BookPage(Starred Review)
★ «Fans of Ferrante’s first two Neapolitan novels, My Brilliant Friend (2012) and The Story of a New Name (2013), will especially revel in Giovanna’s confessional, perceptive, gut-wrenching, and often funny narration of what she calls her ‘arduous approach to the adult world’».
Booklist(Starred Review)
«If you are a Ferrante fan, you cannot help submit to find out whether the darkness of adult deceit and family feuds give way to Neapolitan sunshine».
The Times
«The new novel is suspenseful and propulsive; in style and theme, a sibling to her previous books. But it’s also a more vulnerable performance, less tightly woven and deliberately plotted, even turning uncharacteristically jagged at points as it explores some of the writer’s touchiest preoccupations».
The New York Times
«Ferrante has a gift, perhaps even a genius, for making great literature out of melodrama».
The New Yorker
«Novels like The Lying Life of Adults do indeed contain wisdom…As in the Neapolitan novels, and in much of the best first-person fiction, the relationship between telling one’s life story and understanding oneself is central. As long as it is as well-told as Ferrante’s version, it is a story we never tire of».
The Washington Post
«Exquisitely moody . . . A marvelously disconcerting novel of disillusionment».
The Atlantic
«[Ferrante’s] characters have wide-spanned souls and so does Naples, exuding the smells of the sea and gasoline and baking crust».
Los Angeles Times
«In Ferrante novels, the fairytale is never far from the social realism, and here Giovanna is plunged into a dark quest to discover Vittoria and learn how her evil aunt invaded her body […] What’s remarkable is that the book manages to be all the more new and surprising for being layered with familiar Ferrante places and themes […] astonishing, deeply moving tale of the sorts of wisdom, beauty, and knowledge that remain as unruly as the determinedly inharmonious faces of these women».
The Guardian
«Yes, this book lives up to its author’s reputation, and then some. One of this year’s most memorable heroines».
The Boston Globe
«The Lying Life of Adults reads like an intimate confession or urgent confidence, and it will leave the reader as shaken and invigorated as it does its young protagonist».
Minneapolis Star Tribune
«Prepare to be obsessed all over again».
Town & Country Magazine
«Ferrante makes Naples come alive in her latest literary feat».
Newsweek
«Ms Ferrante’s unique style—again superbly captured by Ann Goldstein’s translation—is as urgent as ever, proceeding by confrontation and volcanic self-revelation, with little traditional description».
The Economist
Elena Ferrante
La vita bugiarda degli adulti
€19,00 – pp. 336
Crescere per diventare cosa, per assomigliare a chi?
Il nuovo romanzo di una scrittrice amata in tutto il mondo.
Il bel viso della bambina Giovanna si è trasformato, sta diventando quello di una brutta malvagia adolescente. Ma le cose stanno proprio così? E in quale specchio bisogna guardare per ritrovarsi e salvarsi? La ricerca di un nuovo volto, dopo quello felice dell’infanzia, 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, ora precipitando ora inerpicandosi, disorientata dal fatto che, su o giù, la città pare senza risposta e senza scampo.
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