My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan #1

Author: Elena Ferrante
Publication date: 19/05/2020

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