Those who leave, and those who remain. My ingenious girlfriend. Book 3. Youth. Ferrante E.

The action of the third part of the Neapolitan Quartet, already called the “Best Literary Epius of Modernity,” occurs in the late 1960s and in the 1970s. The history of friendship Lena Greco and Lila Cherullo continues against a stormy historical background: student protests, street clashes, a growing trade union movement. Lila, after breaking up with her husband, moved with her little son to the new buildings area and works at a sausage plant. Lena left Naples, graduated from an elite college, published a book, prepares to get married and become a member of an influential family. Life breds them further, they become for each other only in voices on the other end of the wire. Will their relationship withstand the test change?