My Brilliant Friend
Subtitle: Book One : Childhood, Adolescence
By: Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein
Contributors: Goldstein, Ann, 1949- translator
Series: [Neapolitan -- book one]
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9781609450786
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Friendship; Fiction
Other titles: Childhood, adolescence
Work titles: Amica geniale
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : eliminating all the traces; title: Childhood : the story of Don Achille; title: Adolescence : the story of the shoes.