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| Original Title: | L'amica geniale |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | L'amica geniale #1 |
| Characters: | Raffaella Cerullo (Lila), Elena Greco (Lenuccia), Rino Cerullo, Stefano Carracci, Pasquale Peluso, Carmela Peluso, Ada Cappuccio, Antonio Cappuccio, Nino Sarratore, Enzo Scanno, Marcello Solara, Michele Solara |
| Setting: | Italy Naples(Italy) |
| Literary Awards: | Waterstones Book of the Year Nominee (2015), Europese Literatuurprijs Nominee (2014), Jarl Hellemann -palkinto (2016) |
Elena Ferrante
Paperback | Pages: 331 pages Rating: 3.95 | 174139 Users | 16815 Reviews
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| Title | : | My Brilliant Friend (L'amica geniale #1) |
| Author | : | Elena Ferrante |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 331 pages |
| Published | : | September 25th 2012 by Penguin Random House (first published October 19th 2011) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Italy. European Literature. Italian Literature. Novels. Audiobook. Literary Fiction |
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A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense and generous hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante's inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship. Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighbourhood, a city and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between her two protagonists.Rating Regarding Books My Brilliant Friend (L'amica geniale #1)
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I received this book as a Christmas present from my boss over a year ago. In fact, everyone in the office received a copy thats how much our boss wanted us to read it. Before you start wondering what sort of wonderful place I worked at, let me clarify it was a literary agency, so such things were totally commonplace. So despite the terrible cover, and a rather idiotic blurb I knew it would be a fine book.No review of Ferrantes book is complete without a mention of how no one knows who FerranteFrom the age of two until twelve, I lived in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. During the Industrial Revolution, Merthyr had briefly been the iron capital of the world, but things didn't work out; iron ore became harder to mine, the people running the refining works didn't adopt modern methods quickly enough, the town was too far from the sea. Everything fell apart, and by the 1930s unemployment was running at 80%. When I arrived with my parents in 1960, things had become a little better, but the town was
This novel has so much violence that it should come with some kind of rating. Seriously, I had no idea it was so dangerous to grow up in Naples."I feel no nostalgia for our childhood: it was full of violence."My Brilliant Friend is the story of two childhood friends, Elena and Lila. It is the first in a series, and I confess that when I started reading it, I did not intend to continue with them I was just going to read this first one to see what all the fuss over Ferrante was about. It took me
Lila and Elena, childhood friends in a neighborhood of 1950s Naples, both wear the moniker my brilliant friend, but there is no question which of the two Ferrante meant. Elena continues her schooling through high school in this first installment of the trilogy of novels Ferrante has written about the two, while Lila, incandescent Lila, is held back from further schooling by her family claiming they cannot afford it. Instead, Lila takes books from a small neighborhood lending library to study on
[4.5 stars]If I were to describe Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend in one word it would be 'mythic.' The minutiae of Elena and Lila's lives into which Ferrante dives takes on these mythic proportions, pulling the reader along on a tense and frightful story. But at first glance, the story is anything but tense and frightful. It's a story of female friendship, between two lower-class girls in Naples following WWII. Ferrante, with precision and passion, recounts the lives of these girls as
After finishing Elena Ferrante's first novel in the Neapolitan Trilogy, I am of two minds. On the one hand, being a writer myself, it is demotivating, due to its frank brilliance; on the other, for an enthusiastic reader, it is thought-provoking and deeply engaging. And to think, this is only a translation! Though I am undeniably envious of Ferrante's beautiful skill with words, I have to acknowledge that the growing hype around her is totally warranted, and in fact, I want to add to it:-)The
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