The Next Live Book Club Will Be… Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend

The Next Live Book Club Will Be… Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend

elena-ferrante_my-brilliant-friendOur next Better Reading Book Club Live will discuss Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend. Don’t miss the opportunity to talk about the first of this brilliant Italian author’s ‘Neapolitan quartet’ of novels that have been the focus of so much excitement and discussion over the past year.

“Imagine if Jane Austen got angry and you’ll have some idea how explosive these works are,” said a reviewer in The Australian.

The next Better Reading Book Club will be on Wednesday 25th May at 8pm AEST on the Better Reading Facebook page. We had so much great feedback from our last book club and we’ve taken all this onboard. At your request, we’ll extend the segment to a full half hour and we’ll take more comments and questions from our online audience.

Our special guests on the night will be two of Australia’s best novelists – Michael Robotham and Caroline Overington!

Stay tuned for discussion notes!

For Book Club Frequently Asked Questions click here.

Read more about the Ferrante novels here.

 

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                      Elena Ferrante
                      About the author

                      Elena Ferrante

                      Elena Ferrante was born in Naples. She is the author of seven novels: The Days of Abandonment, Troubling Love, The Lost Daughter, and the quartet of Neapolitan novels: My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child. Fragments, a selection of interviews, letters and occasional writings by Ferrante, will be published in early 2016. She is one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors.Ann Goldstein has translated all of Elena Ferrante’s work. She is an editor at the New Yorker and a recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Prize.

                      Books by Elena Ferrante

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                      1. Harriet Cartwright says:

                        I can’t believe all the hype this book has generated, I have the rest of the series but the first one didn’t inspire me to keeping going.

                      2. Karen Bartlett says:

                        I’d been meaning to read this series for quite a while and I just started reading this first one last week – it’s slow and gentle so far, but that to me is the essence of life at that time in Southern Italy – I’m enjoying it so far 🙂