书名：The Lying Life of Adults成年人的谎言生活-埃莱娜·费兰特《那不勒斯四部曲》作者新书

作者：Elena Ferrante 

出版社名称：Europa Editions 

出版时间：2020

语种：英语 

ISBN：9781787702400 

商品尺寸：22.4 x 2.8 x 15.3 cm

包装：平装

页数：300（以实物为准）

"Modern, urgent, truthful." -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett ― The Telegraph

"Elena Ferrante is an expert chronicler of adolescence and its many indignities, as well as its erratic, overwhelming passions." ― The Observer

"Ferrante is unbeatable at pulling you inside the mind of a teenage girl, making you see how everything that looks irrational from the outside - the moods, the silences, the jealousy, tears, fears and resentments - are utterly logical and reasonable." ― The Times

“Layer by layer, piece by piece, with her customary deftness, Ferrante builds up her story, introducing new characters and bits of information, as Giovanna’s once safe and sane world becomes ever more slippery…. Ferrante has a voice very much her own.” ― The TLS

该书将讲述Giovanna在那不勒斯渡过童年和成年生活的有力而独特的写照，将由Netflix联合意大利影视制作公司Fandango改编为迷你剧。

《The Lying Life of Adults》始于一个惊讶的谜团：12岁的Giovanna是意大利拿坡里（Naples）一个富裕社区的居民，俯瞰着大海和维苏威火山（Mount Vesuvius）。她偷听她父亲的说话，指出她正在「长得越来越像Vittoria」。父亲指的是他疏远的姐姐，一位可以由格林兄弟勾勒出卑鄙性格的角色，「拥有苗条、恶魔般的身影，在夜幕降临时潜伏在房屋的角落。」如此，Giovanna的父亲毫不客气地将她从一个自信的孩子变成了一个她必须解决的谜团：这位姑姑丑陋的面孔被人从家庭照片中剪掉了，谁会这样做呢？Giovanna开展调查，去到另一个拿坡里。她在那里遇到的女人满怀激情及一直吸香烟，是一位前女仆，并用朴实的真理说话。而让Giovanna惊讶的是，她十分美丽。这位姑姑还引导侄女走向女人的海岸。

在“那不勒斯四部曲”之后，费兰特这部新小说《大人们的谎言生活》，意大利版在2019年11月上市后成为备受追捧的畅销书。

Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment, Troubling Love, The Lost Daughter, and the four volumes of the Neapolitan Quartet: My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child. She is also the author of a children’s picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night, and a work of non-fiction, Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey. Incidental Inventions, her collected Guardian columns, were published in 2019.