The Story of a New Name

The second part of the internationally acclaimed four-volume "Neapolitan Quartet" continues the story of Lenu Greco and Lila Cerullo. The friends are growing up, and their life paths are inevitably diverging. They still strive to escape the squalor and poverty of the Neapolitan outskirts, but each chooses her own way. Impulsive Lila becomes Signora Carracci; wealth and a new name force her to renounce the person she was just yesterday, leaving behind the bold, talented girl who had so much potential. Lenu, on the other hand, continues to study, striving to prove to herself that she can succeed even without her genius friend. The stuffy back alleys of Naples, the entertainment-filled Ischia, the university town of Pisa... in different settings, life will again test the strength of Lila and Lenu's friendship, and they will repeatedly find that the thread that connected them in childhood cannot be broken by either of them.