My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels Series #1) by Elena Ferrante
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Web ID: 1538500a 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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captivating story
one of my favorite books ever
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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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Favorite book ever
When u grow up lower or middle class. This book will hit home. Loved it.
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Loved it!
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