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Title: My Brilliant Friend: 1 The Neapolitan Novels
Author: FERRANTE ELENA
Illustrator: GOLDSTEIN ANN (TRANS)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 25/02/2015
Imprint: TEXT PUBLISHERS
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
My friendship with Lila began the day we decided to go up the dark stairs that led, step after step, flight after flight, to the door of Don Achille’s apartment…
I waited to see if Lila would have second thoughts and turn back. I knew what she wanted to do; I had hoped that she would forget about it, but in vain.
My Brilliant Friend is a ravishing, wonderfully written novel about a friendship that lasts a lifetime.
The story of Elena and Lila begins in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. The two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else, sometimes to their own detriment, as each discovers more about who she is and suffers or delights in the throes of their intense friendship.
There is a piercing honesty about Ferrante’s prose that makes My Brilliant Friend a compulsively readable portrait of two young women, and also the story of a neighbourhood, a city and a country.
Series: The Neapolitan Novels
ISBN: 9781925240009
Weight: 303gr
Dimension: 198mm X 128mm
Pages: 336