My Brilliant Friend
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4.0 • 379 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Named the #1 Book of the 21st Century by the New York Times: The "enduring classic" about the lifelong friendship of 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
Basis for the HBO series
Customer Reviews
muy good
this novel helped me get out of a reading slump. kept me entertained all the way through, lenu is a really honest and entertaining narrator; i fear i connected with her and her feelings a little too much.
Brilliant
Whether in Italy or parts of the United States, one can relate to her stories.
Not my normal read, but so much raw emotion, I couldn’t stop readying it!
The hardest part was keeping track of each member of the families who made up their neighborhood.