I finished The New Last Name. Now the story makes sense: Elena and Lila are alter-egos: they are best friends who take opposite directions in life. Lila is smarter as a child, but drops out of school and marries Stefano. After leaving him, she has a life of urban working-class poverty while living with Enzo, with whom she isn't having sex. Elena studies hard, gets her high school degree and then studies in Pisa, meeting Pietro, a brilliant classicist to whom she gets engaged. She never feels good enough for Pietro or his family, but then writes a novel that they help her to publish. She realizes that a text that Lila had written when they were children is the narrative kernel of her own novel. She takes a bus to the sausage factory where Lila is working... There is little cliff-hanger to bring us to the third novel of the tetralogy.
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