{"product_id":"9781594139956","title":"Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Neapolitan Novels Series #3)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoon to be an HBO series, book three in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one of today's most beloved and acclaimed writers, Elena Ferrante, “one of the great novelists of our time.” (Roxana Robinson, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the third book in the Neapolitan quartet, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in \u003ci\u003eMy Brilliant Friend\u003c\/i\u003e, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the nineteen-seventies. Yet they are still very much bound to each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFerrante is one of the world’s great storytellers. With the Neapolitan quartet she has given her readers an abundant, generous, and masterfully plotted page-turner that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight readers for many generations to come.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gale Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055792406768,"sku":"9781594139956","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781594139956_p0.jpg?v=1763811625","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781594139956","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}