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Off the Shelf
By Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes
| Friday, October 21, 2016
Decades before Elena Ferrante gifted us with Lenù and Lila in
her Neapolitan novels, Carmen Laforet gave us Andrea in NADA. The works have
a great deal in common: in both, passionate young women try to wrench
themselves from the poverty and close-mindedness of their society. The
specter of World War II looms over both books, along with the reality that
for many that war never ended but continued on in broken hearts and crooked
streets all across Europe. READ MORE
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