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Estudi preliminar amb propostes de treball i de comentaris de text a cura de Lluïsa Julià.Laura a la ciutat dels sants és un dels clàssics indiscutibles de la narrativa catalana del segle XX. Narra l

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"La mort i la primavera" es la novel·la que Rodoreda volia convertir en la seva obra mestra, i la mes autobiografica de totes les que va escriure sota la seva aparença fantastica. Els grans temes rodoredians -l'amor que neix i mor, l'afany de llibertat que topa amb la repressio, la solitud davant la meravella del mon, el talent dels homes per convertir la vida en un infern- s'hi despleguen amb mes esplendor i mes horror que mai. En un lloc sense nom i en una epoca indeterminada, allat enmig duna natura inquietant, viu un poble sotmes a una llei rigorosa que vetlla per destruir tota forma de desig. Un noi de catorze anys, en el moment de fer-se home, comença a rebel·lar-se i sembra sense voler la llavor d'una guerra civil. Real com un contes de fades modern, "La mort i la primavera" es un llibre sobre la sedicio i el testament d'una escriptora que va posar la seva llibertat per damunt de tot.

From one of fantasys biggest recent breakthrough authors comes an exciting, brand new series.The demonsIn the endless forests of the Wild, humanity scratches a living by the side of the great Godroads, paths of crystal that provide safe passage and hold back the infernal tide. Creatures lurk within the trees, watching, and plucking those who stray too far from safety.The DeathlessIn crystal castles held aloft on magical currents, seven timeless royal families reign, protecting humanity from the spread of the Wild and its demons. Born and reborn into flawless bodies, the Deathless are as immortal as the precious stones from which they take their names. For generations a fragile balance has held.And the damnedHouse Sapphire, one of the ancient Deathless families, is riven by suspicion and madness. Whole villages are disappearing as the hunting expeditions holding the Wild at bay begin to fail.Then, when assassins strike, House Sapphire shatters.Nothing lasts forever.

Seleccionado para el Man Booker Prize y el National Book Award 2015. Es una novela inmensamente potente acerca del amor fraternal y los límites de la fortaleza humana

A remarkable psychological thriller by award-winning author Victor del Arbol.Eduardo Quintana is a broken man. The tragedy that cost him the lives of his family is a wound he daily tears open afresh. The once renowned painter wallows in grief, subsisting on alcohol and drugs, eking out a living with whatever painting commissions he can get.But when he is approached by a mysterious woman who wants him to paint a portrait of the man who killed her son, he soon becomes entangled in a web of deceit in which no one, and nothing, is as they seem. With each brushstroke, Eduardo opens doors that were meant to have stayed shut doors that, once opened, can never be closed.Set against the haunted and unsettling backdrop of a Madrid plagued by unrest and economic upheaval, The Heart Tastes Bitter is a dark and compelling story of the search for redemption, revenge, and love and the cruel power of fate.

It has been six months since Tess Muller stopped speaking. Her silence is baffling to her parents, her teachers and her younger sister, Meg. But the more urgent mystery for both girls is where their mother, Evangeline, goes each day, pushing an empty pram. When their father Stefan discovers a car wreck and human remains on their farm, old secrets emerge to threaten the fragile family. A storm is coming and the Mullers are in its path.

Charlie meets everyone - but only once. You might meet him in a hospital, in a warzone, or at the scene of traffic accident. Then again, you might meet him at the North Pole - he gets everywhere, our Charlie. Would you shake him by the hand, take the gif

'AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE' John Boyne'One of the most compulsive psychological mysteries since Donna Tartt's The Secret History . . . impossible to put down' The TimesFrom one of the greatest writers of the century comes a landmark novel of huge ambition.________________________________________WHAT DO WE HIDE INSIDE OURSELVES?One night changes everything for Toby. He's always led a charmed life - until a brutal attack leaves him damaged and traumatised, unsure even of the person he used to be. He seeks refuge at his family's ancestral home, the Ivy House, filled with memories of wild-strawberry summers and teenage parties with his cousins.But not long after Toby's arrival, a discovery is made: a skull, tucked neatly inside the old wych elm in the garden.As detectives begin to close in, Toby is forced to examine everything he thought he knew about his family, his past, and himself.A spellbinding standalone from a literary writer who turns the crime genre inside out, The Wych Elm asks what we become, and what we're capable of, if we no longer know who we are.________________________________________'To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply this: A TRULY GREAT WRITER' Gillian Flynn'French offers a masterclass in unreliability . . . dissolving the boundaries between genre and literary fiction' Sunday Times'A brilliant examination of male privilege and family secrets' Guardian'Gripping and suspenseful, with more twists than a rollercoaster, The Wych Elm is a MAGNIFICENT NOVEL' John Boyne'HER BEST BOOK. Really, it is not a crime novel: as ever, Tana's scope is so much broader than that' Gillian McAllister'Another one of her rich psychological thrillers that will work its way under your skin' Lucy Mangan, Stylist'Tana French's best and most intricately nuanced novel yet. . . Get ready for the whiplash brought on by its final twists and turns' The New York Times'I DROP EVERYTHING for a new Tana French book - feign illness, cancel plans and miss deadlines - and it's always worth it. This mystery about family, memory and the cracks in both will haunt you for a long, long time' Erin Kelly'The Trespasser contains the most tense and serpentine interrogation scenes outside of John le Carre' Mark Lawson, Guardian

FROM THE MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF EILEENTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Savage, funny, frequently on the verge of teetering into lunacy... My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a non-negotiable in your holiday carry-on this summer' VogueIts the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?Our narrator has many of the advantages of life: Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isnt just the loss of her parents in college, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friend.Blackly funny, both merciless and compassionate dangling its legs over the ledge of 9/11 My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a showcase for the gifts of one of Americas major young writers.

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father''''s death, he''''s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women - his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude - a period of desire, despair and possibility - a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.

THIS IS ONE HELL OF A STORY.ITS JUST NOT HERS TO TELL.When failed writer June Hayward witnesses her rival Athena Liu die in a freak accident, she sees her opportunity and takes it.So what if it means stealing Athenas final manuscript?So what if it means borrowing her identity?And so what if the first lie is only the beginningFinally, June has the fame she always deserved. But someone is about to expose herWhat happens next is entirely everyone else's fault.

'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes ... 'When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.

Urtetan zehar egindako gogoetak, apunteak eta burutazioak bildu ditu Karmele Jaiok, hiztegi baten moduan antolatutako liburu honetan. Umetako oroitzapenak, lagunen pasadizoak, kalean ikusitako eszenak, libururen bateko aipuak, aforismo gisako esaldi laburrak, poema moduko pasarteak Era askotako gaiak eta idazmoldeak landu ditu egileak, arintasuna eta sakontasuna ederki konbinatzen dituen idazkera hurbil batean.

Nesta novela Begoña Caamaño relata o que nunca se contou da historia de Penélope e Circe, un dos mitos centrais da cultura europea.

Dos presents, l avui i l ahir, convergeixen en aquest llibre de maduresa de Teresa Pascual, on els matisos de la llum, i la importancia de les finestres, s imposen a la dualitat foscor-claror i el dins i el fora es comuniquen com a parts d un mateix espai on el concepte de llindar, de lloc de pas, ajuda a relativitzar la importancia de les coses. Aqui, la materia pesa pero tot es relatiu, i es relaciona amb l oblit i el silenci dels altres. Instants i traç que va deixant la vida configuren aquest llibre d una poeta que a traves d una aparença de paraula menuda es confirma com a una de les nostres veus mes essencials. Teresa Pascual (El Grau de Gandia, 1952) es va donar a coneixer amb el poemari Flexo (1988) i fins ara ha publicat els reculls: Les hores (1988), Arena (1992), Curriculum Vitae (1996), El temps en ordre (2002), Rebel lio de la sal (2008), Herencies (2011, amb Angels Gregori), Valencia Nord (2014) i Vertical (2019). Recentment ha publicat la versio bilingue catala-castella Rebelion de la sal (2020) amb traduccio i proleg de Lola Andres i El temps en ordre. Poesia reunida 1988-2019 (2020). Ha g

''''One of the best fantasy book series of the past decade'''' TIMEEnter the realm. Unleash the darkness. Live the legend.In a land without magic, an assassin is summoned to the castle. Celaena Sardothien has no love for the vicious king who rules from his throne of glass, but she has not come to kill him. She has come to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three murderers, thieves, and warriors in a deadly competition, she will be released from prison to serve as the King''''s Champion.But something rotten dwells in the castle and it''''s there to kill. When her competitors start dying mysteriously, one by one, Celaena''''s fight for freedom becomes a fight for survival and a desperate quest to root out the evil before it destroys her world, and the people she has come to love.Thrilling and fierce, Throne of Glass is the first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that has captivated readers worldwide.

Enganys amorosos, relacions de parella que decauen a mesura que els fills creixen, depressions, assetjadors, problemes a la feina... Potser la maduresa no és tan plàcida com creien la Lisa, la Sara i

The price of fame . . . is DEATH.When Jenny is spotted by a high-profile modelling agency, she goes from ordinary schoolgirl to celebrity overnight. Suddenly her life is a whirlwind of parties and glamour.Agnes used to be a model too but now she lies in a hospital bed, slowly being destroyed by an eating disorder. Her father sits by her day after day, praying that his only remaining daughter survives.An attempted murder during a lavish photoshoot means that Jenny''s and Agnes''s lives will soon intersect in the most terrifying of ways . . . Because someone is watching them. Someone with a plan.Can Detective Anders Knutas figure out who it is in time to stop a terrible justice being served?

Il romanzo comincia seguendo le due protagoniste bambine, e poi adolescenti, tra le quinte di un rione miserabile della periferia napoletana, tra una folla di personaggi minori accompagnati lungo il loro percorso con attenta assiduita. L'autrice scava nella natura complessa dell'amicizia tra due bambine, tra due ragazzine, tra due donne, seguendo la loro crescita individuale, il modo di influenzarsi reciprocamente, i buoni e i cattivi sentimenti che nutrono nei decenni un rapporto vero, robusto. Narra poi gli effetti dei cambiamenti che investono il rione, Napoli, l'Italia, in piu di un cinquantennio, trasformando le amiche e il loro legame. E tutto cio precipita nella pagina con l'andamento delle grandi narrazioni popolari, dense e insieme veloci, profonde e lievi, rovesciando di continuo situazioni, svelando fondi segreti dei personaggi, sommando evento a evento senza tregua, ma con la profondita e la potenza di voce a cui l'autrice ci ha abituati. Si tratta di quel genere di libro che non finisce. O, per dire meglio, l'autrice porta compiutamente a termine in questo primo romanzo la narrazione dell'infanzia e dell'adolescenza di Lila e di Elena, ma ci lascia sulla soglia di nuovi grandi mutamenti che stanno per sconvolgere le loro vite e il loro intensissimo rapporto.

Estudi preliminar amb propostes de treball i de comentaris de text a cura de Lluïsa Julià.Laura a la ciutat dels sants és un dels clàssics indiscutibles de la narrativa catalana del segle XX. Narra l

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"La mort i la primavera" es la novel·la que Rodoreda volia convertir en la seva obra mestra, i la mes autobiografica de totes les que va escriure sota la seva aparença fantastica. Els grans temes rodoredians -l'amor que neix i mor, l'afany de llibertat que topa amb la repressio, la solitud davant la meravella del mon, el talent dels homes per convertir la vida en un infern- s'hi despleguen amb mes esplendor i mes horror que mai. En un lloc sense nom i en una epoca indeterminada, allat enmig duna natura inquietant, viu un poble sotmes a una llei rigorosa que vetlla per destruir tota forma de desig. Un noi de catorze anys, en el moment de fer-se home, comença a rebel·lar-se i sembra sense voler la llavor d'una guerra civil. Real com un contes de fades modern, "La mort i la primavera" es un llibre sobre la sedicio i el testament d'una escriptora que va posar la seva llibertat per damunt de tot.

From one of fantasys biggest recent breakthrough authors comes an exciting, brand new series.The demonsIn the endless forests of the Wild, humanity scratches a living by the side of the great Godroads, paths of crystal that provide safe passage and hold back the infernal tide. Creatures lurk within the trees, watching, and plucking those who stray too far from safety.The DeathlessIn crystal castles held aloft on magical currents, seven timeless royal families reign, protecting humanity from the spread of the Wild and its demons. Born and reborn into flawless bodies, the Deathless are as immortal as the precious stones from which they take their names. For generations a fragile balance has held.And the damnedHouse Sapphire, one of the ancient Deathless families, is riven by suspicion and madness. Whole villages are disappearing as the hunting expeditions holding the Wild at bay begin to fail.Then, when assassins strike, House Sapphire shatters.Nothing lasts forever.

Seleccionado para el Man Booker Prize y el National Book Award 2015. Es una novela inmensamente potente acerca del amor fraternal y los límites de la fortaleza humana

A remarkable psychological thriller by award-winning author Victor del Arbol.Eduardo Quintana is a broken man. The tragedy that cost him the lives of his family is a wound he daily tears open afresh. The once renowned painter wallows in grief, subsisting on alcohol and drugs, eking out a living with whatever painting commissions he can get.But when he is approached by a mysterious woman who wants him to paint a portrait of the man who killed her son, he soon becomes entangled in a web of deceit in which no one, and nothing, is as they seem. With each brushstroke, Eduardo opens doors that were meant to have stayed shut doors that, once opened, can never be closed.Set against the haunted and unsettling backdrop of a Madrid plagued by unrest and economic upheaval, The Heart Tastes Bitter is a dark and compelling story of the search for redemption, revenge, and love and the cruel power of fate.

It has been six months since Tess Muller stopped speaking. Her silence is baffling to her parents, her teachers and her younger sister, Meg. But the more urgent mystery for both girls is where their mother, Evangeline, goes each day, pushing an empty pram. When their father Stefan discovers a car wreck and human remains on their farm, old secrets emerge to threaten the fragile family. A storm is coming and the Mullers are in its path.

Charlie meets everyone - but only once. You might meet him in a hospital, in a warzone, or at the scene of traffic accident. Then again, you might meet him at the North Pole - he gets everywhere, our Charlie. Would you shake him by the hand, take the gif

'AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE' John Boyne'One of the most compulsive psychological mysteries since Donna Tartt's The Secret History . . . impossible to put down' The TimesFrom one of the greatest writers of the century comes a landmark novel of huge ambition.________________________________________WHAT DO WE HIDE INSIDE OURSELVES?One night changes everything for Toby. He's always led a charmed life - until a brutal attack leaves him damaged and traumatised, unsure even of the person he used to be. He seeks refuge at his family's ancestral home, the Ivy House, filled with memories of wild-strawberry summers and teenage parties with his cousins.But not long after Toby's arrival, a discovery is made: a skull, tucked neatly inside the old wych elm in the garden.As detectives begin to close in, Toby is forced to examine everything he thought he knew about his family, his past, and himself.A spellbinding standalone from a literary writer who turns the crime genre inside out, The Wych Elm asks what we become, and what we're capable of, if we no longer know who we are.________________________________________'To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply this: A TRULY GREAT WRITER' Gillian Flynn'French offers a masterclass in unreliability . . . dissolving the boundaries between genre and literary fiction' Sunday Times'A brilliant examination of male privilege and family secrets' Guardian'Gripping and suspenseful, with more twists than a rollercoaster, The Wych Elm is a MAGNIFICENT NOVEL' John Boyne'HER BEST BOOK. Really, it is not a crime novel: as ever, Tana's scope is so much broader than that' Gillian McAllister'Another one of her rich psychological thrillers that will work its way under your skin' Lucy Mangan, Stylist'Tana French's best and most intricately nuanced novel yet. . . Get ready for the whiplash brought on by its final twists and turns' The New York Times'I DROP EVERYTHING for a new Tana French book - feign illness, cancel plans and miss deadlines - and it's always worth it. This mystery about family, memory and the cracks in both will haunt you for a long, long time' Erin Kelly'The Trespasser contains the most tense and serpentine interrogation scenes outside of John le Carre' Mark Lawson, Guardian

FROM THE MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF EILEENTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Savage, funny, frequently on the verge of teetering into lunacy... My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a non-negotiable in your holiday carry-on this summer' VogueIts the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?Our narrator has many of the advantages of life: Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isnt just the loss of her parents in college, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friend.Blackly funny, both merciless and compassionate dangling its legs over the ledge of 9/11 My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a showcase for the gifts of one of Americas major young writers.

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father''''s death, he''''s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women - his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude - a period of desire, despair and possibility - a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.

THIS IS ONE HELL OF A STORY.ITS JUST NOT HERS TO TELL.When failed writer June Hayward witnesses her rival Athena Liu die in a freak accident, she sees her opportunity and takes it.So what if it means stealing Athenas final manuscript?So what if it means borrowing her identity?And so what if the first lie is only the beginningFinally, June has the fame she always deserved. But someone is about to expose herWhat happens next is entirely everyone else's fault.

'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes ... 'When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.

Urtetan zehar egindako gogoetak, apunteak eta burutazioak bildu ditu Karmele Jaiok, hiztegi baten moduan antolatutako liburu honetan. Umetako oroitzapenak, lagunen pasadizoak, kalean ikusitako eszenak, libururen bateko aipuak, aforismo gisako esaldi laburrak, poema moduko pasarteak Era askotako gaiak eta idazmoldeak landu ditu egileak, arintasuna eta sakontasuna ederki konbinatzen dituen idazkera hurbil batean.

Nesta novela Begoña Caamaño relata o que nunca se contou da historia de Penélope e Circe, un dos mitos centrais da cultura europea.

Dos presents, l avui i l ahir, convergeixen en aquest llibre de maduresa de Teresa Pascual, on els matisos de la llum, i la importancia de les finestres, s imposen a la dualitat foscor-claror i el dins i el fora es comuniquen com a parts d un mateix espai on el concepte de llindar, de lloc de pas, ajuda a relativitzar la importancia de les coses. Aqui, la materia pesa pero tot es relatiu, i es relaciona amb l oblit i el silenci dels altres. Instants i traç que va deixant la vida configuren aquest llibre d una poeta que a traves d una aparença de paraula menuda es confirma com a una de les nostres veus mes essencials. Teresa Pascual (El Grau de Gandia, 1952) es va donar a coneixer amb el poemari Flexo (1988) i fins ara ha publicat els reculls: Les hores (1988), Arena (1992), Curriculum Vitae (1996), El temps en ordre (2002), Rebel lio de la sal (2008), Herencies (2011, amb Angels Gregori), Valencia Nord (2014) i Vertical (2019). Recentment ha publicat la versio bilingue catala-castella Rebelion de la sal (2020) amb traduccio i proleg de Lola Andres i El temps en ordre. Poesia reunida 1988-2019 (2020). Ha g

''''One of the best fantasy book series of the past decade'''' TIMEEnter the realm. Unleash the darkness. Live the legend.In a land without magic, an assassin is summoned to the castle. Celaena Sardothien has no love for the vicious king who rules from his throne of glass, but she has not come to kill him. She has come to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three murderers, thieves, and warriors in a deadly competition, she will be released from prison to serve as the King''''s Champion.But something rotten dwells in the castle and it''''s there to kill. When her competitors start dying mysteriously, one by one, Celaena''''s fight for freedom becomes a fight for survival and a desperate quest to root out the evil before it destroys her world, and the people she has come to love.Thrilling and fierce, Throne of Glass is the first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that has captivated readers worldwide.

Enganys amorosos, relacions de parella que decauen a mesura que els fills creixen, depressions, assetjadors, problemes a la feina... Potser la maduresa no és tan plàcida com creien la Lisa, la Sara i

The price of fame . . . is DEATH.When Jenny is spotted by a high-profile modelling agency, she goes from ordinary schoolgirl to celebrity overnight. Suddenly her life is a whirlwind of parties and glamour.Agnes used to be a model too but now she lies in a hospital bed, slowly being destroyed by an eating disorder. Her father sits by her day after day, praying that his only remaining daughter survives.An attempted murder during a lavish photoshoot means that Jenny''s and Agnes''s lives will soon intersect in the most terrifying of ways . . . Because someone is watching them. Someone with a plan.Can Detective Anders Knutas figure out who it is in time to stop a terrible justice being served?

Il romanzo comincia seguendo le due protagoniste bambine, e poi adolescenti, tra le quinte di un rione miserabile della periferia napoletana, tra una folla di personaggi minori accompagnati lungo il loro percorso con attenta assiduita. L'autrice scava nella natura complessa dell'amicizia tra due bambine, tra due ragazzine, tra due donne, seguendo la loro crescita individuale, il modo di influenzarsi reciprocamente, i buoni e i cattivi sentimenti che nutrono nei decenni un rapporto vero, robusto. Narra poi gli effetti dei cambiamenti che investono il rione, Napoli, l'Italia, in piu di un cinquantennio, trasformando le amiche e il loro legame. E tutto cio precipita nella pagina con l'andamento delle grandi narrazioni popolari, dense e insieme veloci, profonde e lievi, rovesciando di continuo situazioni, svelando fondi segreti dei personaggi, sommando evento a evento senza tregua, ma con la profondita e la potenza di voce a cui l'autrice ci ha abituati. Si tratta di quel genere di libro che non finisce. O, per dire meglio, l'autrice porta compiutamente a termine in questo primo romanzo la narrazione dell'infanzia e dell'adolescenza di Lila e di Elena, ma ci lascia sulla soglia di nuovi grandi mutamenti che stanno per sconvolgere le loro vite e il loro intensissimo rapporto.