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by Elena Ferrante
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Availability:In StockContributor:Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator)Series:Neapolitan Novels #1Audience:Young AdultPublish date:9/25/2012Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Europa EditionsISBN-13:9781609450786ISBN-10:1609450787UPC:9781609450786Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Coming of Age, Friendship, WomenSize:8.10 x 5.30 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC8XVNNM7B

#1 BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY - NEW YORK TIMES


Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times-bestselling "enduring masterpiece" about a lifelong friendship between two women from Naples (The Atlantic).


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.

"An intoxicatingly furious portrait of enmeshed friends."--Entertainment Weekly

"Spectacular."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air

"Captivating."--The New Yorker
Language:EnglishPublisher:Europa EditionsISBN-13:9781609450786ISBN-10:1609450787UPC:9781609450786Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Coming of Age, Friendship, WomenSize:8.10 x 5.30 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC8XVNNM7B

Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), which was made into a film directed by Roberto Faenza, Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), adapted by Mario Martone, and The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008), soon to be a film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. She is also the author of a Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey (Europa, 2016) in which she recounts her experience as a novelist, and a children's picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night (Europa, 2016). The four volumes 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) were published in America by Europa between 2012 and 2015. The first season of the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, directed by Severio Costanzo premiered in 2018.
Ann Goldstein is an editor at The New Yorker. Her translations for Europa Editions include novels by Amara Lakhous, Alessandro Piperno, and Elena Ferrante's bestselling My Brilliant Friend. She lives in New York.

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