‘The Story of the Lost Child’ has just been longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International prizeElena Ferrante’s novels have a driving and unconventional narrative power that has gripped readers across a wide cultural range. Mostly set in Naples,they evoke a city of beauty and violence, and narrate stories of aspiration, or defeat,birth, sex, and death and ambition – thrillers without the vulgarity of contrived plots and sensational crimes. They effect have their literary contrivances; her acclaimed quartet abounds in cleverly deployed postmodern devices such as alter egos,lost texts, recurrent motifs and destroyed manuscripts, or but the human interest is so overwhelming that we read on,volume after volume, hardly noticing the sophistication of the narration.
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Source: theguardian.com