My brilliant friend
Subtitle: childhood, adolescence
By: Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein
Contributors: Goldstein, Ann, 1949- translator
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: The Neapolitan novels -- book 1
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 505
ISBN-13: 9781410491169
Subjects: Female friendship; Fiction; Poor girls; History
Other titles: Childhood, adolescence
Work titles: Amica geniale (Novel)
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.
Notes: "Thorndike Press large print basic"--Title page verso.

Translation from Italian of: Amica geniale.