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The adaptation is not quite as good as the books, because the interior lives of memorable literary characters are never so easily reproduced for the camera. I do want to talk about one element, though: The teenaged Michele Solara, as portrayed by Alessio Gallo. Who is Michele Solara? Michele and his brother Marcello are the preening, rich bullies of the lot, heirs to a shady black market established by their parents.

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Home Press The Story of the Lost Child Bustle: "The fourth and final installment wraps up the tale of friendship, class struggle, political upheaval and the search for identity that has hooked so many readers over the four years since the first volume was published in Italy. Bustle: "The fourth and final installment wraps up the tale of friendship, class struggle, political upheaval and the search for identity that has hooked so many readers over the four years since the first volume was published in Italy. The fourth and final installment wraps up the tale of friendship, class struggle, political upheaval and the search for identity that has hooked so many readers over the four years since the first volume was published in Italy. Between My Brilliant Friend and The Story of the Lost Child, the novels cover some five decades and a wide cast of characters, leading Elena Greco and her compatriots from childhood through higher education and early careers, marriages and breakups, motherhood and the death of parents.

Perhaps it is that the earth feels thinner there, under the shadow of Vesuvius, the boundary between the our world and the roiling fire beneath all too apparent. I have no image in my mind of the volcano, but it must have been there, maybe fading into the haze. The city and its people have a reputation for threat and combustion that is partly myth-making. But still.