The Story of the Lost Child

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The Story of the Lost Child
480 pages; Europa Editions
If you hunger for a discovery and haven’t yet encountered the quartet of novels by this pseudonymous writer, retreat at once to a room of your own and settle in for one of the most pleasurable reading experiences of the decade. The saga that began with My Brilliant Friend and ends with this title chronicles the fraught friendship of two Italian women and the conflict between ambition and tradition. It has the sweep of an epic and the intimacy of a journal. 
— Leigh Haber