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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
- The Neapolitan Novels, Book 3
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
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Summary
In the third book in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, Elena and Lila have grown into womanhood.
Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons.
Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance, and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up for women during the 1970s. And yet, they are still very much bound to each other in a book that “shows off Ferrante’s strong storytelling ability and will leave readers eager for the final volume of the series” (Library Journal).
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- Jenny
- 05-01-16
An Amazing Quartet
I love these books. I came to them reluctantly, hating to follow the crowd, but I would, and frequently do, wholeheartedly recommend them to friends. The writing is wonderful without being self-conscious.
These are truly wonderful books. Weeks after reading them I am still in that Neapolitan neighbourhood, surrounded by squalor and violence to witness the palpable yearning of two little girls whose ambitions could not be contained within its boundaries.
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- Elena Baldi
- 03-09-19
disappointing narrator - again
Book is good of course, disappointed that she fell for Nino, but we all make mistakes
Translator...I know it is an English version, but especially in those days the marks were on a 1-10 basis. A- and As might mean something to your English speaking public, but are an earache really. And As at Uni??? please.
Narrator: PAPA is the Pope, the one and only. The word papa' has an accent I cannot add with a UK keyboard. PLEASE learn how to say the word, along with Elena, Nicola and many more. An earache!
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- anita
- 05-04-21
my favourite series by far
The story of Lina and Elena is one of the best I have ever read. thoroughly recommend.
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- Dana Serfaty
- 09-03-21
Great book and narration
Really enjoyed listening to the audiobook. Fascinating story with an excellent narration, can't wait to listen or read the 4th book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-02-17
Terrible. Don't buy.
What would have made Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay better?
This was read by a robot. I didn't want to give it any stars but you can't leave a review without giving stars, it's not possible. But I want to warn people that this sounds like it's read by a robot/computer. I could not listen.
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- Andrew
- 02-09-23
Stilted narration
The person narrating, this book had a stilted way of speaking that was quite difficult to get used to. I couldn’t find an alternative recording and really wanted to listen to this book so persevered and got used to it eventually.
Have a listen to the sample before you buy.
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- Monica Nitulescu
- 28-06-23
Love the series…. But
Another great story in the series, I do however agree with the comments that the reading sounded very robotic and was quite distracting.
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- Heather
- 25-06-22
Voice not good
Slow reading made this impossible. Beautiful sorry so better in book form to enjoy it
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- Alan
- 28-06-21
Another 5*
Probably didn’t captivate me as much as the first two but already planning on downloading the 4th! Such a great writer.
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- SOTIRIS JEROPOULOS
- 29-12-20
Worth the read, but..
The story, by Elena Ferrante, was human and real and I wanted to hear it to the end. It is sad, poignant even, to follow the stories of these people and glad that cultures are slowly changing in these parts of the world. However, the narration of Hillary Huber is really bad, it is despite the narration that I persevered to the end. She practically stuttered, did she not listen to her own recording? Is this how she normally speaks at home? If the Italian words were so difficult for her to pronounce, and then go back to speaking English, why was another narrator not chosen? It was torture.
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