The Story of The Lost Child (Neapolitan Novel)

It is clear that her novel is the child of Italian neorealism and an abiding fascination with scene.” —El Pais INDEX OF CHARACTERS The Cerullo family (the shoemaker’s family): Fernando Cerullo, shoemaker, Lila’s father. Ferrante’s fictions are fierce, unsentimental glimpses at the way a woman is constantly under threat, her identity submerged in marriage, eclipsed by motherhood, mythologised by desire. It was the tone he had learned in the neighborhood as a boy, the formal tone of the upright male: he who in reality had been timid and fearful. Finally father and son—the boy large, the man looking like a stick in his oversized clothes—set off for the railroad.