The Lying Life of Adults – Vomero – Naples

"To tolerate existence, we lie, and we lie above all to ourselves,” this is what Elena Ferrante wrote in the opening pages of her book " The Lying Life of Adults" set in Naples the lying adults of the book ... lived in the suburb of Vomero.

Now the area is home to affluent Neapolitans, among them doctors, lawyers and professors, who grew up in places akin to Rione Luzzatti.

“This is where a lot of people from poor districts moved to, many wanting to forget where they came from,” said Luca Di Costanza, who manages Raffaello bookshop. “Just like the father, Andrea, in Ferrante’s new book – he wants to bury his past.”

In her latest novel, Ferrante immediately captivates the reader with the opening line: “Two years before leaving home, my father told my mother that I was very ugly.” The stinging remark is overheard by the book’s main protagonist, Giovanna, during a discussion between her leftwing parents over her failure to keep up at school, and charts the course of her turbulent adolescence.

Set in the 1990s, this is a vivid world typical of Ferrante: of relationships, family divides and the festering emotions of unresolved conflict.

I'm taking you to Vomero in 2023 a suburb of Naples that is now trying to redefine itself again as a cool suburb. Its sits above the raw, chaotic streets of the rest of Naples.

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