The vicious and brilliant Neapolitan series hurtles to its stormy end with this fourth novel, which sees Elena and Lila navigating the social and political upheavals of Italy in the 1960s and ’70s. Ferrante has never wavered in her depiction of two women, one all head and one all gut, inextricably linked. Her achievement is like Lila herself—“terrible, dazzling.”
