Book · 2011 · Fiction

My Brilliant Friend

Name: My Brilliant Friend
Author: Elena Ferrante

Europa Editions · 336 pages

★ 6.7 editorial score

No novelist has written female friendship with this much competition. Elena and Lila grow up in a violent Naples neighborhood in the 1950s, and only one is allowed to stay in school.

Medium

Novel

Subject

Female friendship Friendship Childhood

Setting

Naples

Time

2011Depicts 1950s

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