My Brilliant Friend (#1 Neapolitan)

Author(s): Elena Ferrante; Ann Goldstein (Translator)

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Premiering November 2018 as an HBO series.


Book one in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted family epic by Italy's most beloved and acclaimed writer, Elena Ferrante, "one of the great novelists of our time." (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times)


 


Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Ferrante's four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its protagonists, 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 conflictual friendship. Book one in the series follows Lila and Elena from their first 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 her protagonists.


 


"An intoxicatingly furious portrait of enmeshed friends," writes Entertainment Weekly. "Spectacular," says Maureen Corrigan on NPR's Fresh Air. "A large, captivating, amiably peopled bildungsroman," writes James Wood in The New Yorker.


 


Ferrante is one of the world's great storytellers. With My Brilliant Friend she has given her readers an abundant, generous, and masterfully plotted page-turner that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight readers for many generations to come.


 

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Elena Ferrante was born in Naples. She is the author of seven novels: The Days of Abandonment, Troubling Love, The Lost Daughter, and the quartet of Neapolitan Novels: My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child. Frantumaglia, a selection of interviews, letters and occasional writings by Ferrante, will be published in late 2016, as will an illustrated picture book, The Beach at Night. Elena Ferrante is one of Italy's most acclaimed authors. Ann Goldstein is an editor at the New Yorker and a recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award.

General Fields

  • : 9781925498073
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : 0.408
  • : October 2016
  • : 198mm X 128mm
  • : Australia
  • : November 2016
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Elena Ferrante; Ann Goldstein (Translator)
  • : Hardback
  • : 1216
  • : English
  • : 853.92
  • : 336