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Newspaper: The Wall Street Journal
Date: Dec 9 2015
URL: http://graphics.wsj.com/best-of-the-best-books-2015/#popup

"How should we classify Elena Ferrante’s magnificently complicated Neapolitan quartet? The three previous titles in the series—“My Brilliant Friend” (2012), “The Story of a New Name” (2013) and “Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay” (2014)—defy categorization. Are they genre or literary fiction? Soap operas? Political epics? Some form of memoir? With the arrival of Ann Goldstein’s supple English translation of the fourth and final volume, “The Story of the Lost Child,” the question of form, in all its guises, becomes even more involving..." -- Elizabeth Lowry