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My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante

My Brilliant Friend By Elena Ferrante

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

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My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

OVER 5 MILLION COPIES SOLD IN ENGLISH WORLDWIDE
OVER 14 MILLION COPIES OF THE NEAPOLITAN QUARTET SOLD WORLDWIDE

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From one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, comes this ravishing and generous-hearted novel about a friendship that lasts a lifetime. The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else, as their friendship, beautifully and meticulously rendered, becomes a not always perfect shelter from hardship. Ferrante has created a memorable portrait of two women, but My Brilliant Friend is also the story of a nation. Through the lives of Elena and Lila, Ferrante gives her readers the story of a city and a country undergoing momentous change.

Nothing quite like it has ever been published.-Guardian

Elena Ferrante has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy-and the world.-The Sunday Times

This is high stakes, subversive literature.-The Telegraph

My Brilliant Friend Reviews

Nothing quite like it has ever been published before . . . Brilliant novels, exquisitely translated. -- Meghan O'Rourke * The Guardian *
Elena Ferrante has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy-and in the world. * The Sunday Times *
Stunning. An intense, forensic exploration of friendship. * The TLS *
To the uninitiated, Elena Ferrante is best described as Balzac meets The Sopranos and rewrites feminist theory. * The Times *
Ferrante's writing seems to say something that hasn't been said before, in a way so compelling its readers forget where they are, abandon friends and disdain sleep. -- Joanna Biggs * LRB *
A modern classic. * The Times *
Ferrante confronts female sexual awakening with such an absence of romantic enchantment it leaves you gasping. * The Daily Mail *
Elena Ferrante is an expert chronicler of adolescence and its many indignities, as well as its erratic, overwhelming passions. * The Observer *
Ferrante is a hypnotist. * The Spectator *

About Elena Ferrante

Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008), and the four novels known as the Neapolitan Quartet (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child) which were published by Europa Editions between 2012 and 2015. My Brilliant Friend, the HBO series directed by Saverio Costanzo, premiered in 2018. Ferrante is also the author of Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey (Europa, 2016), a children's picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night (Europa, 2016), and a collection of personal essays illustrated by Andrea Ucini entitled Incidental Inventions (Europa, 2019). The Lost Daughter was made into a feature film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia Colman. Her most recent novel is The Lying Life of Adults (Europa, 2020). In the Margins, a collection of original essays on reading and writing, was published by Europa in 2022. Ann Goldstein is one of the most accomplished translators from the Italian working today. Best known for her translations of Elena Ferrante's oeuvre, she has also brought to Anglo-Saxon readers novels by Primo Levi, Pierpaolo Pasolini, Alessandro Baricco and other classic and contemporary Italian writers.

Additional information

GOR010551348
9781787702226
1787702227
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Elena Ferrante
Neapolitan Quartet
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
20200305
331
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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