My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (797 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1609450787 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 331 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Elena Ferrante was born in Naples, Italy. She is the author of My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, and her previous novels The Days of Abandonment, Troubling Love, and The Lost Daughter.
"A great book about friendship, but also about poverty, backwardness, and isolation." according to sumoran. This is a great book. Not everybody will enjoy it and it is definitively not a chick-lit.While this is a book about friendship, I noticed that a lot of people with negative reviews came disappointed with that aspect of the book. This is a brilliant book about. Kate Runyan said A boring book!. My Brilliant Friend is a slow moving and very boring novel with far too many characters perhaps the author thinks she's a 19th century Russian novelist. I found the prologue interesting and engaging where and why had Lila totally disappeared without a trace, . Complex friendships born in poverty A. Murphy This has been popping up on lists of must-reads and recommendations all over the place for me. I was excited to dive in, but it took me a full ninety pages before I really felt like I was invested in the book and enjoying it. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood,
This gorgeous novel should bring a host of new readers to one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors.”—The Barnes and Noble Review “Ferrante draws an indelible picture of the city’s mean streets and the poverty, violence and sameness of lives lived in the same place forever She is a fierce writer.”—Shelf Awareness “Ferrante transforms the love, separation and reunion of two poor urban girls into the general tragedy of their city.”––The New York Times “Beautifully translated by Ann Goldstein Ferrante writes with a ferocious, intimate urgency that is a celebration of anger. Her voice is passionate, her view sweeping and her gaze basilisk In these bold, gorgeous, relentless novels, Ferrante traces the deep connections between the political and the domestic. Palatial and heartbreak
They are likewise the embodiments of a nation undergoing momentous change. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. 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.The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. 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, the unforgettable Elena and Lila.Ferrante is the author of three previous works of critically acclaimed fiction: The Days of Abandonment, Troubling Love, and The Lost Daughter. 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. She has given her readers a masterfully plotted page-turner, abundant and generous in its narrative de