My Brilliant Friend
Translated by Ann GoldsteinMy Brilliant Friend is the gripping first volume in Elena Ferrante's widely acclaimed Neapolitan Novels. This exquisitely written quartet creates an unsentimental portrait of female experience, rivalry and friendship never before seen in literature.The story of Elena...
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Translated by Ann GoldsteinMy Brilliant Friend is the gripping first volume in Elena Ferrante's widely acclaimed Neapolitan Novels. This exquisitely written quartet creates an unsentimental portrait of female experience, rivalry and friendship never before seen in literature.The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirt
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ISBN:
9781925240009
Publisher: Text Publishing
Pages no: 331
Edition language: English
Series: L'amica geniale (#1)
The first of Elena Ferrante's popular Neopolitan Quartet. Set in a poor district of Naples amidst families, feuds, first loves and strict moral codes, i t is the story of the developing friendship of two girls, told through the eyes of one of them, the "Brilliant Friend". But it is the other girl wh...
It took way longer than I expected to finish this. First of all the storytelling felt a bit choppy at the beginning. It would start a scene and without finishing it would jump straight to another unrelated scene, and then without finishing that one would switch to another. One moment these two girls...
Audible[b:My Brilliant Friend|35036409|My Brilliant Friend (L'amica geniale #1)|Elena Ferrante|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1493655783s/35036409.jpg|19174054] is simply brillaint.It was a great recommendation (thank you, Katie!) that I (I have to admit it) didn't take too seriously at first (...
TW: This book contains VIOLENCE and SEXUAL ASSAULT JFC WHAT A CLIFFHANGER.My head hurts from reading this, from the feelings it has evoked, from the sadness that clings to me like a second skin because I cannot understand what has happened or why I feel that I'm aboard a train that will crash at any...
That ending....wow. I feel perfectly set up!This is a brilliant (see what I did there) and intricate look at friendship between two girls. This installment covers young girls through adolescence, ending up in mid-teen years if I remember correctly.There are love interests, family dramas, neighborho...
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