The Booker Prizes celebrates the world’s most outstanding fiction, whether written in or translated into English, and each month they shine a spotlight on a different book from the Booker Library.
This month they are celebrating Elena Ferrante’s The Story of the Lost Child with a reading guide, an extract and a chance to win an Elena Ferrante bundle. Access the Booker Monthly Spotlight today.
We will be sharing the Booker Prizes Monthly Spotlight for you to enjoy each month.
Introducing the Booker Prizes November Monthly Spotlight: The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
In 2016, Elena Ferrante was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize for The Story of the Lost Child, the fourth and final instalment of her Neapolitan Quartet, translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein..
The book chronicles a friendship between two women: brilliant, bookish Elena and fiery, uncontainable Lila. Having moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books, Elena returns to her home city to be with the man she has always loved. Lila, on the other hand, never freed herself from Naples. And her entrepreneurial success only draws her into closer contact with the nepotism, criminal violence and inviolable taboos that infect her neighbourhood.
Ferrante delivers a heart-wrenching end to her dazzling saga, which documents the lives of two women growing up against the backdrop of a volatile Naples, in a book that is as seductive as it is perilous.
The Booker Prizes are offering a reading guide for The Story of the Lost Child, an extract from the book, and an opportunity to win an Elena Ferrante bundle and a Booker Prize tote bag.
The Booker Prize 2024
The Booker Prizes have announced the shortlist for this year’s Booker Prize – the world’s most influential prize for a single work of fiction.
Featuring the largest number of shortlisted women in the Booker Prize’s 55 year history, these six stories will transport readers around the world and beyond the earth’s atmosphere: from the International Space Station to a cave network beneath the French countryside, and almost everywhere in between.
Find out all about the shortlist here.
Access reading guides for each of the shortlisted titles here
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