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My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: Neapolitan Novels ; 1New York, N.Y. : Europa Editions, 2012Description: 331 p. ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781609450786 (pbk.)
  • 1609450787 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Childhood, adolescence
Uniform titles:
  • Amica geniale. English.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 853/.914 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ4866.E6345 A7513 2012
Awards:
  • Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2015.
Summary: "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."
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"One of the great novelists of our time."--The New York Times Book Review

Original title : L'amica geniale.

"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."

Translation by Ann Goldstein.

Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2015.

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