The false adult life

The Lying Life of Adults A brief about the book "La Vita Bugiarda Degli Adulti" ("The Lying Life of Adults") Giovanna lives, the only daughter of two teachers, a happy childhood in the upscale neighborhoods of upper Naples. But she is shocked one day upon hearing a conversation between her parents, in which her father compares her to Vittoria, the ugly and petty aunt. Thus begins Giovanna's search for Vittoria in the lower streets of Naples, tinged with vulgarity and baseness. Between the top and the bottom, Giovanna swings, sometimes falling and sometimes climbing, exposing the lying lives of adults, gasping for answers that may inspire a way to salvation. Elena Ferrante "Perhaps she is the best writer of novels in our time. Her literature is transparent as glass, her stories primal and deep at the same time." The Economist