My Brilliant Friend

Book One : Childhood, Adolescence

Paperback, 331 pages

English language

Published Sept. 20, 2015 by Europa Editions.

ISBN:
978-1-60945-078-6
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OCLC Number:
1044419046

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From one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, comes this ravishing and generous-hearted novel about a friendship that lasts a lifetime. The story of Elena and Lila 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 their friendship, beautifully and meticulously rendered, becomes a not always perfect shelter from hardship. Ferrante has created a memorable portrait of two women, but My Brilliant Friend is also the story of a nation. Through the lives of Elena and Lila, Ferrante gives her readers the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country undergoing momentous change. --front flap

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Crudeza y ternura

La feminidad -en el patriarcado- es una cárcel. La precariedad, otra. Y 'La amiga estupenda' es, en esencia, una novela sobre la vida cuando su transcurrir choca constantemente contra los barrotes de esas -y otras- cárceles.

Elena Ferrante consigue presentar las heridas y los malestares que configuran la existencia de tantísimas personas desde una escritura sencilla que aúna de alguna manera la ternura y la crudeza. Quizá porque la realidad, por más que estemos rodeadas por el mal más abyecto, es en sí misma preciosa. Que la protagonista principal sea una niña potencia enormemente esta capacidad de verlo todo con extrañeza e inocencia.

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Subjects

  • Friendship
  • Fiction

Places

  • Italy
  • Naples
  • Naples (Italy)