My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels Series #1) by Elena Ferrante

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Now an HBO series- the first volume in the New York Times–bestselling enduring masterpiece about a lifelong friendship between two women from Naples (The Atlantic). Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante's four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, 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 conflicted friendship. This first novel in the series follows Lila and Elena from their fateful meeting as ten-year-olds through their school years and adolescence. 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 two women. An intoxicatingly furious portrait of enmeshed friends. —Entertainment Weekly Spectacular. —Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air Captivating. —The New Yorker.

  • Product Features

    • Suggested age range- Adult
    • Format- Paperback
    • Product dimensions- 5.3" W x 8.2" H x 1.3" D
    • Genre- Fiction
    • Publisher- Europa Editions, Incorporated, Publication date- 09-25-2012
    • Page count- 336
    • ISBN- 9781609450786
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4 months ago

a gift for all your childhood friends

This is a wonderful gift for any or all of your childhood friends or siblings with whom you laughed your hearts out, felt fear or dread together, and grown up with and apart from. It's a marvelous narrative of friendship and how culture and families shape us. It's set in Naples. Gripping for the emotional details of rivalry. Loved it.

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2 years ago

captivating story

one of my favorite books ever

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2 years ago
from Virginia

Beautiful realism

My Brilliant Friend is the first novel in a tetralogy by Italian author Elena Ferrante. The tetralogy, known as the Neapolitan Novels, is a raging international success. This first novel can stand alone and is better approached that way. It is excellent, a story of growing up impoverished in Naples, Italy, in vivid convincing interesting detail. The narrative centers on a difficult, strong, lasting friendship between two girls (in childhood and adolescence). The five-star rating I am giving My Brilliant Friend only applies to that first book of the quartet, definitely not to the rest of the tetralogy. I also read the fourth book, The Story of the Lost Child, and it is very poor, overflowing with soap opera emotional ups and downs. It is about the same friends, over roughly 30 years of adulthood, bad marriages, bad lovers, redundant shouting arguments, disappointments in life, really tiresome. I would give that fourth book only a one-star rating.

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3 years ago
from Pomona

Favorite book ever

When u grow up lower or middle class. This book will hit home. Loved it.

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5 years ago
from Havre de Grace, MD

Loved it!

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