A deluxe cloth hardcover with sprayed edges and colored end papers illustrating the Bay of Naples.

#1 BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY -  NEW YORK TIMES

"An unconditional masterpiece." --Jhumpa Lahiri

When Elena Ferrante set out to write the story of Elena and Lila, she conceived it as one single work of fiction, one expansive novel that would capture the reality and ambivalence of female friendship, motherhood, marriage, class and adolescence. 

2025 marks 10 years since publication of the quartet was completed. To celebrate this anniversary, as well as honour and acknowledge the author's original conception, we are releasing the four novels in one volume.   

Described by the New Yorker's James Wood as "large, captivating, amiably peopled...a beautiful and delicate tale of confluence and reversal," the Neapolitan Quartet tells a poignant, universal story about friendship and belonging.  

"The capacity of stories to speak to anyone and in any time is the fruit of a mysterious mixture of sensibility, ability, and luck, and no writer really knows how that fruit ripens and if it has fully matured."--Elena Ferrante

ELENA FERRANTE is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), and The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008), now a film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, and Jessie Buckley. She is also the author of Incidental Inventions (Europa, 2019), illustrated by Andrea Ucini; Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey (Europa, 2016); and a children's picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night (Europa, 2016). The four volumes known as the "Neapolitan novels" (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child) were published by Europa Editions in English between 2012 and 2015. In 2024, the first volume in the series, My Brilliant Friend, was named the #1 Best Book of the 21st Century by the New York Times. My Brilliant Friend, the HBO series directed by Saverio Costanzo, premiered in 2018 and ran its fourth and final season in 2024. Ferrante's most recent novel is the instant New York Times bestseller, The Lying Life of Adults (Europa, 2020).

ANN GOLDSTEIN has translated into English all of Elena Ferrante's books, including the  New York Times bestsellers  The Lying Life of Adults and  The Story of the Lost Child, which was also shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. She has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship and is the recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award. She lives in New York.

Publisher: Europa Editions
Publish Date: October 07, 2025
Type: Hardcover
Pages: 1248
Language: English
EAN/UPC: 9798889661443
BISAC Categories: Fiction - Friendship - Family Life - Marriage & Divorce - Coming of Age - Women - Literary