My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels #1)
Publisher details
- Author
- Elena Ferrante
- Publisher
- Text Publishing
- Genre
- Fiction
- Released
- 26 March, 2015
Synopsis
This exquisitely written quartet creates an unsentimental portrait of female experience, rivalry and friendship never before seen in literature.
The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. They learn to rely on each other and discover that their destinies are bound up in the intensity of their relationship.Elena Ferrante’s piercingly honest portrait of two girls’ path into womanhood is also the story of a nation and a meditation on the nature of friendship itself.My Brilliant Friend is a modern masterpiece, the work of one of Italy’s great storytellers.#55 Australia's Top 100 2016
Books by Elena Ferrante
My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels #1)
The Story of a New Name
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
The Story of the Lost Child
Frantumaglia (Fragments)
Incidental Inventions
The Lying Life of Adults
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