One person found this helpful. Two girls in a Naples slum where everybody knows everybody and has since time immemorial. The narrator is one of them--she's an academic type, but cautious. Her crazy friend the brilliant one doesn't get past elementary school, but manages to get outrageous self into a comfy financial situation. Crazy like a fox! The novel is a closeup of about a decade of everyday life in postwar Naples, in a poor neighborhood peopled with folks just doing their thing.
The English version, and the conjectures about its author were reviewed recently in The New Yorker magazine, but the novel I just read in Italian was much more fun and lively than I'd expected. That is if you can find humor in malignity, misogyny, poverty, hidebound tradition, and fear of the unknown.
As in her earlier work, the writing style is wordy and dense. But not in a negative sense, but as a device to express the complexity of the writer's own emotions and the situation she's growing up in. The characters churn along, living entirely in their own closed world, and we are invited in for a good long look. I had heard so much about these books and this author, I couldn't wait to read her, so being bilingual, I read the Italian.
The beginning is brilliant, the mystery that is proposed -- the friend's disappearance -- is intriguing.
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The scenes evoking their childhood friendship are also beautifully done. But there is another mystery in the book, that I kept hoping the writer would illuminate, but never does. How was it possible that the child of a calzolaio -- with no books at home and her parents and neighbors speaking only dialect -- learned to read, and speak proper Italian before entering elementary school?
Highly unlikely if you ask me. I kept it up for awhile, but then lost interest.
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