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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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Historical | Fiction
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 Italyβs most beloved and acclaimed writer, Elena Ferrante, βone of the great novelists of our time.β (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times) Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Ferranteβs 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. βAn intoxicatingly furious portrait of enmeshed friends,β writes Entertainment Weekly. βSpectacular,β says Maureen Corrigan on NPRβs Fresh Air. βA large, captivating, amiably peopled bildungsroman,β writes James Wood in The New Yorker. Ferrante is one of the worldβs 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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