The Lying Life of Adults: All the fibs we tell ourselves

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The lies that leaving childhood reveal: From the author of the best selling series, the Neapolitan Quartet, the pages of The Lying Life of Adults are inhabited by Elena Ferrante’s flawed characters. This most recent of Ferrante’s work centers on Giovanna, a young girl navigating and coming to understand the reality of her post-childhood world as she lives between two parts of a city that fear and hate each other — the Naples of the rich, a city of refinement and riches, and the Naples of the poor, full of depravity and vulgarity. And those closest to her, whom she once used to trust, are revealing lives Giovanna never wanted to know existed. The Lying Life of Adults rips aside the lovely tale of childhood, to reveal the lies that we tell not just to others but to ourselves, to reframe the past and the people we are. The book is also available in Arabic.