My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One

My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One

Soon to be an HBO series, book one in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted family epic by Italyâ€™s most beloved and acclaimed writer, Elena Ferrante, â€œone of the great novelists of our time.â€ (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times)
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Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Ferranteâ€™s four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its protagonists, the fiery and unforgettable Lila, and the bookish narrator, Elena, become women, wives, mothers, and leaders, all the while maintaining a complex and at times conflictual friendship. Book one in the series follows Lila and Elena from their first fateful meeting as ten-year-olds through their school years and adolescence.Â

Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between her protagonists.

â€œAn intoxicatingly furious portrait of enmeshed friends,â€ writes Entertainment Weekly. â€œSpectacular,â€ says Maureen Corrigan on NPRâ€™s Fresh Air. â€œA large, captivating, amiably peopled bildungsroman,â€ writes James Wood in The New Yorker

Ferrante is one of the worldâ€™s great storytellers. With My Brilliant Friend she has given her readers an abundant, generous, and masterfully plotted page-turner that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight readers for many generations to come.

Country	USA
Author	Elena Ferrante
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1st
EISBN	9781609458638
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Europa Editions
Manufacturer	Europa Editions
NumberOfPages	331
PublicationDate	2012-09-25
Publisher	Europa Editions
ReleaseDate	2012-09-25
Studio	Europa Editions

My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One

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