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Title	:	My Brilliant Friend (L'amica geniale #1)
Author	:	Elena Ferrante
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 331 pages
Published	:	September 25th 2012 by Penguin Random House (first published October 19th 2011)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Italy. European Literature. Italian Literature. Novels. Audiobook. Literary Fiction

My Brilliant Friend (L'amica geniale #1) Paperback | Pages: 331 pages

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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. Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighbourhood, a city and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between her two protagonists.

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Original Title:	L'amica geniale
Edition Language:	English
Series:	L'amica geniale #1
Characters:	Raffaella Cerullo (Lila), Elena Greco (Lenuccia), Rino Cerullo, Stefano Carracci, Pasquale Peluso, Carmela Peluso, Ada Cappuccio, Antonio Cappuccio, Nino Sarratore, Enzo Scanno, Marcello Solara, Michele Solara
Setting:	Italy Naples(Italy)
Literary Awards:	Waterstones Book of the Year Nominee (2015), Europese Literatuurprijs Nominee (2014), Jarl Hellemann -palkinto (2016)

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I have been studying Italian in my free time and so decided to try reading one of the most popular Italian writers of today: Elena Ferrante. There have been many articles about this author's mysterious anonymity. Her real identity is unknown except to her publisher because she wishes to have a normal life. I get that. Still, it only adds to the intrigue, as you can't help but wonder who writes these marvelous books. My Brilliant Friend is not the sort of book I would normally pick up as I prefer

1 "sweet Jesus...this is the first of four books" stars !! 2018 Read I was Most Afraid to Hate Award First of all a bit of translationIn English we say blahblahblah. In Italian they say blablabla. Ms. Ferrante separates this book into two sections: Childhood (18 chapters) and Adolescence (62 chapters) Childhood Ch 1 to 9 Ms. Ferrante writes: blablablablablablablablablab and blablablablablaJaidee: God I hope this gets better Childhood Ch 10-14Ms. Ferrante writes: blablablablabla and

I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me. So said Virginia Woolf and this, the forging of identity in relationship, is very much the theme of Elena Ferrantes compelling novel. Elena, the narrator of the novel, is in first grade when we first meet her. She lives in a violent and impoverished working class district of Naples where kindred spirits or role models are hard to find. Certainly not her mother My mother did her best to make me understand that I was

I had this book on my radar for so long but I always got distracted by other books (but I think this is the story of 90% of bookworms, so many books so little time. Sigh!) It took me three years to finally read this, and what an adventure this turn out to be. "There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable. The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she

Early in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, the narrator arrives at the eponymous farmhouse and has the following exchange with the Earnshaws' servant, Joseph:What are ye for? he shouted. T' maister's down i' t' fowld. Go round by th' end o' t' laith, if ye went to spake to him.Is there nobody inside to open the door? I hallooed, responsively.There's nobbut t' missis; and shoo'll not oppen 't an ye mak' yer flaysome dins till neeght.Charming. Now imagine, for a moment, that the scene had instead

I had a friend, I still have, albeit, with time our paths diverged a bit, alas ! From early childhood till our twenties we were inseparable like two budgerigars. We were alike, yet different. We were alike because of youth but we differed about our expectations. While I daydreamed she had her feet firmly fixed on the ground. She was good at science while I always preferred humanities. She was pretty, easy-mannered girl, no wonder she was popular with the boys. But it was never any problem to me

Lila and Elena, childhood friends in a neighborhood of 1950s Naples, both wear the moniker my brilliant friend, but there is no question which of the two Ferrante meant. Elena continues her schooling through high school in this first installment of the trilogy of novels Ferrante has written about the two, while Lila, incandescent Lila, is held back from further schooling by her family claiming they cannot afford it. Instead, Lila takes books from a small neighborhood lending library to study on