My Brilliant Friend

Description

Naples, 1950s. Two girls grow up together in a poor, violent neighborhood on the outskirts of the city. Elena, studious and reserved. Lila, brilliant, fierce, and impossible to contain. Their friendship is the kind that marks you forever, built on admiration, rivalry, tenderness and a quiet, consuming need for each other.

Elena Ferrante’s first volume of the Neapolitan Novels is one of the most celebrated works of the 21st century. Translated into dozens of languages and adapted for television, My Brilliant Friend is the story of two women who build themselves, lose each other, and find each other again across an entire lifetime. It is also the story of Italy, of class, of what it means to be a woman who refuses to disappear.

Read it once and you will want to read it again immediately