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Neapolitan
Europa
September 2012
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Featuring: Lila; Elena
ISBN: 1609450787
EAN: 9781609450786
Kindle: B079MGWXK6
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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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