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My brilliant friend

Beginning in the 1950s Elena and Lila grow up in Naples, Italy, mirroring two different aspects of their nation.

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  • "Amica geniale"@pl
  • "Childhood, adolescence"@en
  • "Childhood, adolescence"

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  • "Beginning in the 1950s Elena and Lila grow up in Naples, Italy, mirroring two different aspects of their nation."@en
  • "Beginning in the 1950s Elena and Lila grow up in Naples, Italy, mirroring two different aspects of their nation."
  • "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. The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. As they grow, as their paths repeatedly diverge and converge, Elena and Lila remain best friends whose respective destinies are reflected and refracted in the other. They are likewise the embodiments of a nation undergoing momentous change. 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 . With this novel, the first in a trilogy, she proves herself to be one of Italy's great storytellers. She has given her readers a masterfully plotted page-turner, abundant and generous in its narrative details and characterizations, that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight her many fans and win new readers to her fiction."@en
  • "My Brilliant Friend is a ravishing, wonderfully written novel about a friendship that lasts a lifetime. The story of Elena and Lila begins in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. The two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else, sometimes to their own detriment, as each discovers more about who she is and suffers or delights in the throes of their intense friendship. There is a piercing honesty about Ferrante's prose that makes My Brilliant Friend a compulsively readable portrait of two young women, and also the story of a neighbourhood, a c."
  • "A la fin des années 1950, Elena et Lina vivent dans un quartier défavorisé de Naples. Malgré des études brillantes, Lina abandonne l'école pour travailler avec son père dans sa cordonnerie. En revanche, Elena, soutenue par son institutrice, étudie dans les meilleures écoles. Durant cette période, les deux amies suivent des chemins parallèles, qui tantôt se croisent tantôt s'écartent."
  • "A partir de la década de 1950 Elena y Lila crecen en Nápoles, Italia, lo que refleja dos aspectos diferentes de su nación."
  • "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.ÿThe story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. As they grow, as their paths repeatedly diverge and converge, Elena and Lila remain best friends whose respective destinies are reflected and refracted in the other. They are likewise the embodiments of a nation undergoing momentous change. 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."@en
  • "The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. As they grow, as their paths repeatedly diverge and converge, Elena and Lila remain best friends whose respective destinies are reflected and refracted in the other. They are likewise the embodiments of a nation undergoing momentous change. 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."
  • "The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. As they grow, as their paths repeatedly diverge and converge, Elena and Lila remain best friends whose respective destinies are reflected and refracted in the other. They are likewise the embodiments of a nation undergoing momentous change. 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."@en

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  • "Translations"@en
  • "History"@en
  • "Translations"
  • "History"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Powieść włoska"@pl
  • "Fiction"
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  • "De geniale vriendin : jeugd, puberteit"
  • "My brilliant friend"
  • "My brilliant friend"@en
  • "L' amie prodigieuse : roman : enfance, adolescence"
  • "La amiga estupenda"
  • "La amiga estupenda"@es
  • "My Brilliant Friend"@en
  • "L'amie prodigieuse : enfance, adolescence"
  • "Genialna przyjaciółka"
  • "Genialna przyjaciółka"@pl
  • "My brilliant friend. Book one, Childhood, adolescence"
  • "My brilliant friend : childhood, adolescence"@en
  • "My brilliant friend. Childhood, Adolescence Book one, childhood, adolescence"
  • "My brilliant friend. childhood, adolescence / book one"@en
  • "My brilliant friend : book one : childhood, adolescence"@en
  • "My brilliant friend. book one : childhood, adolescence"@en

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