Neapolitan Chronicles Audiobook

Quotes

• “The stories collected in this volume, which reverberate with Chekhovian energy and melancholy, are revered in Italy by writers and readers alike. Ann Goldstein and Jenny McPhee reward us with a fresh and scrupulous translation.”

  — Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize–winning author

• “This collection of writing and reportage about Naples was a major inspiration for Elena Ferrante. Ortese’s portrait of the Italian city just after World War II is of a place of poverty and desperation.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Today, few critics would disagree with the poet Andrea Zanzotto, who rates [Ortese] as ‘one of the most important Italian women writers of this century.’"

  — Independent (London)

• “An astonishing descent into the underworld…A modern artist has rarely rendered so intensely the spectrality of all things.”

  — La Repubblica (Rome)

• “In stories and essays, Ortese describes both the Neapolitan poor and the bourgeois in granular detail…Required reading for Ferrante fans and scholars of Neapolitan literature.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “This remarkable city portrait, both phantasmagorical and harshly realistic, conveys Naples in all its shabbiness and splendor.”

  — Phillip Lopate, author of Waterfront