Elena Ferrante

Pseudonymous Italian novelist; My Brilliant Friend opens the four-part Neapolitan Novels.

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Elena Ferrante is the pen name of an Italian novelist who has chosen to remain anonymous.

My Brilliant Friend is the first of the Neapolitan Novels, following the friendship of Elena and Lila from childhood in a poor neighborhood of Naples.

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My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante

Elena and Lila grow up in a poor, violent neighborhood of Naples, bound by a friendship full of rivalry, admiration and the hunger to escape.

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