《失踪的孩子》是“那不勒斯四部曲”的第四部，小说聚焦了莉拉和埃莱娜（“我”）的壮年和晚年，为她们持续了五十多年的友谊划上了一个令人心碎的句号。

“我”为了爱情和写作，离开丈夫带着两个女儿回到了那不勒斯，不可避免地与莉拉，还有我曾想要逃离的城区再度变得亲密。“我”和莉拉甚至在同一年怀孕、生子，并经历了恐怖残暴的那不勒斯大地震，一切都分崩离析，一切又将被重建。

“我”在不自觉中卷入莉拉秘密的企图——她希望利用我的名声和写作技巧来对抗城区陈腐而猖獗的恶势力。但在经历了生命最恐怖的打击之后，莉拉选择以一种怪异夸张的方式在城区彻底将自己流放。

而“我”也将以惊人的韧性和诚实面对写作、爱情、家庭的失败。在经历了多年的自我怀疑之后，“我”决定忤逆（罔顾？）莉拉的告诫，将“我”和她一生的友谊写成一本小说，却招来了最深的背叛……

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Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila. In this book, life’s great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women’s friendship, examined in its every detail over the course of four books, remains the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books. But now, she has returned to Naples to be with the man she has always loved. Lila, on the other hand, never succeeded in freeing herself from Naples. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect her neighborhood. Yet somehow this proximity to a world she has always rejected only brings her role as unacknowledged leader of that world into relief.
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《新名字的故事》是埃莱娜·费兰特的“那不勒斯四部曲”的第二部，描述了埃莱娜和莉拉的青年时代。在她们的人生以最快的速度急遽分化的那些年里，她们共同体验了爱、失去、困惑、挣扎、嫉妒和隐蔽的破坏。

莉拉在结婚当天就发现婚姻根本不是她想象的那样，她的初夜几乎是一场强奸。她带着一种强大的破坏欲介入了斯特凡诺的家族生意，似乎成为了她和埃莱娜小时候都想成为的那种女人。久未有身孕的莉拉，和埃莱娜去海边度假休养。而在伊斯基亚岛的那个夏天，改变了所有人的一生……

出于对莉拉所拥有的爱情的愤怒，“我”（埃莱娜）奋力摆脱这个破败、暴力、充满宿仇的街区。“我”成了街区的第一个大学生，并和一个高级知识分子家庭的男孩订婚，甚至出版了第一本小说。“我”以胜利者的形象回到那不勒斯，却发现告别了丑陋婚姻的莉拉，在一家肉食加工厂备受屈辱地打工。

当“我”发现自己的小说，其实完全窃取了莉拉交托给“我”的秘密笔记本里那些独特的力量和灵感，“我”被迫面临一个极度痛苦的问题：“我”和莉拉，到底谁离开了，又是谁留下了？

《我的天才女友》是埃莱娜·费兰特“那不勒斯四部曲”的第一部，讲述了两个女主人公莉拉和埃莱娜的少女时代。故事一开始，已经功成名就的埃莱娜接到莉拉儿子里诺的电话，说他母亲彻底消失了。埃莱娜想起莉拉对自己命运的预言，于是她写下她们一生的故事……

莉拉和埃莱娜一起成长于那不勒斯一个破败的社区，从小形影不离，彼此信赖，但又都视对方为自己隐秘的镜子，暗暗角力。

莉拉聪明，漂亮。她可以毫不畏惧地和欺凌自己的男生对质，也可以去找人人惧怕的阿奇勒﹒卡拉奇要回被他夺走的玩具；埃莱娜既羡慕莉拉的学习天赋和超人的决断力，又一直暗暗模仿莉拉。

家人不支持莉拉继续求学，因此她到父亲和兄长苦苦维持的修鞋店帮工，又面临几个纨绔子弟的追求。埃莱娜则怀着对朋友的关爱、嫉妒和理解，独自继续学业，却始终无法面对和莉拉竞争的失落。

最终，十六岁的莉拉决定嫁给肉食店老板，但在婚宴上，她发现了丈夫的背叛。而埃莱娜也站在成人世界的入口，既为前途担忧，也因对思想前卫的尼诺产生朦胧好感而彷徨。