Sales of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet have surged after the identity of the famously anonymous author was revealed by an Italian-American investigative journalist Sunday.
All four books, which have sold a million worldwide, hit
the top of Amazon's Movers and Shakers rankings.
Writing in the New York Review of Books and other
publications, Caludio Gatti 'outed' Ferrante, to widespread
dismay, as a Rome-based translator of German feminist fiction,
Anita Raja, wife of Neapolitan novelist Domenico Starnone.
Fans of My Brilliant Friend and the other books have
slammed Gatti for "rooting in dustbins" and invading the
writer's privacy after he followed a paper trail to Raja.
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