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Rosa Borenstein asked this question about The Story of the Lost Child (Neapolitan Novels, #4):
Significance of dolls?
Dani Tridente I can't help but think that giving back the dolls was Lila's final and most cruel hissiness towards Lenu. She not only revealed that she had kept them…mǰI can't help but think that giving back the dolls was Lila's final and most cruel hissiness towards Lenu. She not only revealed that she had kept them during all those years, never telling Lenu anything for a whole lifetime, but also explicits that their friendship was never truly complicit. Lila let Lenu know only what she deemed necessary, manipulating her ever since childhood.
I can't help but wonder though if having her entire story told through Lenu's eyes was some sort of endgame of this whole manipulative friendship... (less)
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The Story of the Lost Child
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